Oskar Davico

“Poetry can not even be an imitation, because it mimics what exists, and poetry content and form – that which exists only in the germ, which does not exist any clear and although there will be. Poetry can not be, and in any case it is not, wicked taste of the masses of listeners, not the lies that flatter. “(Oskar Davico,” Poetry and Resistance “) On this day 110 years ago, in 1909, in Sabac was born writer Oskar Davico . After completing the first men’s gymnasium in Belgrade went to Paris to study French language and literature, which after two years will continue in Belgrade. During his studies in Paris was a sparring partner in a boxing school. Boxing deal before going to college, he was a champion of the paper-category, but he taught piano at the music school. He was the youngest member of the Surrealist group and one of the thirteen signatories Almanac “impossible”. As secretary of the local committee of the Yugoslav Communist Party, was arrested in 1932 and sentenced to five years in prison in Sremska Mitrovica and Lepoglava. Slaved and during World War II, was arrested in 1941 in Split and taken to a concentration camp for Jews on the island of Korcula and interned in Italy, but in 1943 he managed to escape and join the partisans. He also worked as a journalist, he covered the trial of war criminals at Nuremberg. Professional became a writer in 1947. He wrote poetry, fiction, essays, polemics, travelogues, editor of literary magazines, translated … He has won many awards, his novel “Song” Union of Writers of Yugoslavia in 1952 was declared the best work of the year, and three times won the NIN award, for the novel “Concrete and Switzerland” (1956), “Hunger” (1963) and “Secrets” (1964) As secretary of the local committee of the Yugoslav Communist Party, was arrested in 1932 and sentenced to five years in prison in Sremska Mitrovica and Lepoglava. Slaved and during World War II, was arrested in 1941 in Split and taken to a concentration camp for Jews on the island of Korcula and interned in Italy, but in 1943 he managed to escape and join the partisans. He also worked as a journalist, he covered the trial of war criminals at Nuremberg. Professional became a writer in 1947. He wrote poetry, fiction, essays, polemics, travelogues, editor of literary magazines, translated … He has won many awards, his novel “Song” Union of Writers of Yugoslavia in 1952 was declared the best work of the year, and three times won the NIN award, for the novel “Concrete and Switzerland” (1956), “Hunger” (1963) and “Secrets” (1964) As secretary of the local committee of the Yugoslav Communist Party, was arrested in 1932 and sentenced to five years in prison in Sremska Mitrovica and Lepoglava. Slaved and during World War II, was arrested in 1941 in Split and taken to a concentration camp for Jews on the island of Korcula and interned in Italy, but in 1943 he managed to escape and join the partisans. He also worked as a journalist, he covered the trial of war criminals at Nuremberg. Professional became a writer in 1947. He wrote poetry, fiction, essays, polemics, travelogues, editor of literary magazines, translated … He has won many awards, his novel “Song” Union of Writers of Yugoslavia in 1952 was declared the best work of the year, and three times won the NIN award, for the novel “Concrete and Switzerland” (1956), “Hunger” (1963) and “Secrets” (1964) Slaved and during World War II, was arrested in 1941 in Split and taken to a concentration camp for Jews on the island of Korcula and interned in Italy, but in 1943 he managed to escape and join the partisans. He also worked as a journalist, he covered the trial of war criminals at Nuremberg. Professional became a writer in 1947. He wrote poetry, fiction, essays, polemics, travelogues, editor of literary magazines, translated … He has won many awards, his novel “Song” Union of Writers of Yugoslavia in 1952 was declared the best work of the year, and three times won the NIN award, for the novel “Concrete and Switzerland” (1956), “Hunger” (1963) and “Secrets” (1964) Slaved and during World War II, was arrested in 1941 in Split and taken to a concentration camp for Jews on the island of Korcula and interned in Italy, but in 1943 he managed to escape and join the partisans. He also worked as a journalist, he covered the trial of war criminals at Nuremberg. Professional became a writer in 1947. He wrote poetry, fiction, essays, polemics, travelogues, editor of literary magazines, translated … He has won many awards, his novel “Song” Union of Writers of Yugoslavia in 1952 was declared the best work of the year, and three times won the NIN award, for the novel “Concrete and Switzerland” (1956), “Hunger” (1963) and “Secrets” (1964) he covers the trial of war criminals at Nuremberg. Professional became a writer in 1947. He wrote poetry, fiction, essays, polemics, travelogues, editor of literary magazines, translated … He has won many awards, his novel “Song” Union of Writers of Yugoslavia in 1952 was declared the best work of the year, and three times won the NIN award, for the novel “Concrete and Switzerland” (1956), “Hunger” (1963) and “Secrets” (1964) he covers the trial of war criminals at Nuremberg. Professional became a writer in 1947. He wrote poetry, fiction, essays, polemics, travelogues, editor of literary magazines, translated … He has won many awards, his novel “Song” Union of Writers of Yugoslavia in 1952 was declared the best work of the year, and three times won the NIN award, for the novel “Concrete and Switzerland” (1956), “Hunger” (1963) and “Secrets” (1964)