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Ranko Marinković

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Ranko Marinković

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1913-02-22 (Komiža, Vis (island))
Died
2001-01-28 (Zagreb) age 87
Nationality
Croatian
Languages
Croatian
Residence History
Vis island → Zagreb

Career

Occupations
Novelist, Dramatist
Active Years
1939-1995
Memberships
Croatian Democratic Union

Education

University of Zagreb
Faculty of Philosophy
Degree: 哲学の学位
Country: Croatia

Awards

Vladimir Nazor Award
1975
Category: 生涯功労賞
Organization: Republic of Croatia
Result: 受賞
Grand Order of King Dmitar Zvonimir
1995
Organization: Republic of Croatia
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Cyclops

1965 Novel

A semi-autobiographical novel describing the gloomy atmosphere among Zagreb intellectuals before the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia.

Pre-war anxietyIntellectuals' anguish
Adaptations
  • [Film] Cyclops / Antun Vrdoljak (1982)

Glorija

1955 Play

A play in which he criticised the Catholic Church.

Criticism of the Catholic Church

Ruke

1953 Novella

Bibliography

  • Proze (1948)
  • Ni braća ni rođaci (1949)
  • Oko božje (1949)
  • Ruke (1953)
  • Pod balkonima (1953)
  • Poniženje Sokrata (1959)
  • Karneval i druge pripovijetke (1962)
  • Kiklop (1965)
  • Zajednička kupka (1980)
  • Never more (1993)
  • U znaku vage (1995)
  • Albatros (1939)
  • Glorija (1956)
  • Politeia (1977)
  • Pustinja (1982)
  • Geste i grimase (1951)
  • Nevesele oči klauna (1986)

Legacy

Important Croatian novelist and dramatist. 'Kiklop' was voted the best Croatian novel of all time in a 2010 poll.