Gustav Krklec (; 23 June 1899 – 30 October 1977) was a

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n writer and translator. Krklec was born in 1899 in Udbinja near

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. In 1900, he moved with his family to Maruševec, a village near

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. He studied in

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and

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. In his youth, he worked as a journalist. Since 1922 he lived in

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, working as a secretary at the

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, and as an editor of '' Nolit''. In 1945 he returned to Zagreb, where he worked as an editor in several publishing houses and magazines. In the period 1950–1954 he served as the president of Matica hrvatska. He is one of the most significant Croatian poets of the first half of 20th century. His verses are marked by simplicity and the suggestibility of expression, by formal and metric artistry, and are characterised by the motifs of life's joy, anxiety and solitude. His nephew Nikola Mauracher (Krklec), the son of his eldest brother Valentin, lives in

, owner of "Pension

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" and is married to the Austrian-Russian conductor and pianist Gal Rasché. His published poetical collections include: * ''Lirika'' (1919) * ''Srebrna cesta'' (1921) * ''Nove pjesme'' (1923) * ''Ljubav ptica'' (1926) * ''Izlet u nebo'' (1928) * ''San pod brezom'' (1940) * ''Darovi za bezimenu'' (1942) * ''Tamnica vremena'' (1944) He also wrote literary critics,

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s and feuilletons: * ''Lica i krajolici'' (1954) * ''Pisma Martina Lipnjaka iz provincije'' (1956) * ''Noćno iverje'' (1960) He also wrote a novel ''Beskućnici'' (1921). He translated works from German, Russian, Czech and Slovene. He died in Zagreb.

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