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Typhoid Sufferers (Serbo-Croatian: Tifusari) is a partisan poem by Croatian writer Jure Kaštelan. The poem depicts hallucinations of typhoid-affected partisans during World War II marching through snow-covered wastelands. It was first published in Kaštelan's 1950 book of poems The Cock on the Roof (Pijetao na krovu).
A Yugoslavian film Ivan Goran Kovačić, was made in 1979, written and directed by Ljubiša Ristić. Croatian actor Rade Šerbedžija portrayed Kovačić. The band Warnament recorded a song titled "Hollow Of The Innocent Victims" inspired by the poem "Jama". Branko Miljković 's poem "Goran" is dedicated to Ivan Goran Kovačić.
20,000 [4] –30,000 [10] [11] killed and dying from sickness. The siege of Szigetvár or the Battle of Szigeth (pronunciation: [ˈsiɡɛtvaːr] Hungarian: Szigetvár ostroma; Croatian: Bitka kod Sigeta, Sigetska bitka; Turkish: Zigetvar Kuşatması) was a siege of the fortress of Szigetvár, Kingdom of Hungary, that blocked Sultan Suleiman 's ...
The Croatian War of Independence was an armed conflict fought from 1991 to 1995 between Croat forces loyal to the Government of Croatia—which had declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY)—and the Serb-controlled Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and local Serb forces, with the JNA ending its combat operations ...
Croatian literature refers to literary works attributed to the medieval and modern culture of the Croats, Croatia, and Croatian.Besides the modern language whose shape and orthography were standardized in the late 19th century, it also covers the oldest works produced within the modern borders of Croatia, written in Church Slavonic and Medieval Latin, as well as vernacular works written in ...
Ivo Andrić. Ivo Andrić ( Serbian Cyrillic: Иво Андрић, pronounced [ǐːʋo ǎːndritɕ]; born Ivan Andrić; 9 October 1892 – 13 March 1975) was a Yugoslav [a] novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule .
Radovan Karadžić ( Serbian Cyrillic: Радован Караџић, pronounced [râdoʋaːn kâradʒitɕ]; born 19 June 1945) is a Bosnian Serb politician who was convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). [2] He was the president of Republika Srpska ...
Anđelka Martić. Anđelka Martić (1 May 1924 – 11 November 2020) was a Croatian writer and literary translator. [1] [2] [3] She is best known for her children's war prose, especially for her novel Pirgo about a friendship of a boy and an orphan fawn in the whirlwind of the Second World War .