Summary
A poet and prose writer born in Postira, whose island landscapes and childhood memories became part of Croatian literature. His story on Brač connects Postira, Bobovišća and the family homes there.
In ‘Voda’ (‘Water’), the experience of island drought became a literary story about community, fear and nature.
Island childhood and two homes on Brač
Nazor was born in Postira, and his family life also connects him with Bobovišća na Moru. The birth house in Postira and the House of Vladimir Nazor in Bobovišća preserve memories of different periods of his life; they are not the same place. Island experience remained a lasting presence in his prose.
Poetry, nature and storytelling
He trained as a natural scientist and worked as a teacher in Dalmatia, Istria and Zagreb. In works such as ‘Slavic Legends’, ‘Croatian Kings’ and ‘Veli Jože’, he brought together myth, history and social themes. The short stories ‘Voda’ (‘Water’) and ‘Vra Krste’ draw on the world of childhood and everyday island life; his storytelling also encompasses real relationships between people.
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The island’s history in literature
Andrija Dorotić appears as a literary character in Nazor’s novel ‘Pastir Loda’. The connection is literary: Nazor was born decades after Dorotić’s death. Through the island setting and long-lasting memory, the novel connects different historical periods.
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The war years and public role
In 1942, he went with Ivan Goran Kovačić to territory held by the Partisans. After the war, he held a senior position in the presidency of the Croatian Parliament. The experience of war brought new themes into his poetry, while his island homeland remained a distinctive strand in his body of work.
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