Dobriša Cesarić

Dobriša Cesarić (10 January 1902 – 18 December 1980) was a Croatian poet and translator. He is considered one of the greatest Croatian poets of the 20th century. In 1951, he became a member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Literary work
His first appearance on the literary scene was when he was 14 years old, with the poem I ja ljubim ("I Love Too") published in a youth magazine Pobratim ("Blood Brother"). His poetic oeuvre consists of ten collections of poems and a few translations.

Work as a translator
He translated from German, Russian, Italian, Bulgarian and Hungarian to Croatian.

Works

 * Lirika, Zagreb, 1931.
 * Spasena svjetla, Zagreb, 1938.
 * Izabrani stihovi, Zagreb, 1942.
 * Pjesme (Voćka poslije kiše), Zagreb, 1951.
 * Knjiga prepjeva, Zagreb 1951.
 * Osvijetljeni put, Zagreb, 1953.
 * Tri pjesme, Zagreb, 1955.
 * Goli časovi, Novi Sad, 1956.
 * Proljeće koje nije moje, Zagreb, 1957.
 * Izabrane pjesme, Zagreb, 1960.
 * Poezija, Skopje, 1965.
 * Moj prijatelju mene više nema., Zagreb, 1966.
 * Slap, izabrane pjesme, Zagreb, 1970.
 * Svjetla za daljine, Belgrade, 1975.
 * ''Izabrana lirika, Belgrade, 1975.
 * Izabrane pjesme i prepjevi, Sarajevo, 1975.
 * Pjesme. Memoarska proza, Zagreb, 1976 (Pet stoljeća hrvatske književnosti, book 113).
 * Voćka poslije kiše, Zagreb, 1978.


 * Published posthumously
 * Spasena svjetla, Zagreb, 1985.
 * Srebrna zrnca u pjesniku, Zagreb, 1985.
 * Balada iz predgrađa, Zagreb, 1992.
 * Povratak, Zagreb, 1995.
 * Kadikad, Zagreb, 1997.
 * Dobriša Cesarić. Pjesme., ABC naklada, Zagreb, 2007.
 * Izabrana djela, Matica hrvatska, Zagreb, 2008.