Sida Košutić (20 March 1902 – 13 May 1965) was a Croatian
novelist
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,
playwright
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Etymology
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,
poet
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literary critic
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,
columnist
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editor-in-chief
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of ''Croatian Women's Journal.''Sida Košutić entry in the
Croatian encyclopedia
The ''Croatian Encyclopedia'' ( hr, Hrvatska enciklopedija) is a Croatian national encyclopedia published by the Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography.
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. Access date 8 July 2019. She was one of the most important female figures of 20th century Croatian literature.Sida Košutić Review of her work by
Vladimir Lončarević
Vladimir Lončarević (born 26 July 1960) is a Croatian literary historian, literary theorist, Croatist, essayist and publicist.
Biography
Lončarević was born in Zagreb, where he graduated in Croatian studies from the Faculty of Humanitie ...
in the radio talk-show "Duhovni profili" of Croatian Radio. Available at hrt.radio.hr. Published 20 October 2017. Accessed 7 July 2019.
Life
Košutić was the sister of Croatian politician August Košutić. She graduated pedagogy at the University of Zagreb. She was editor-in-chief of ''Croatian Women's Journal'' (1939–1944) and lector in the Croatian Publishing Institute, '' Vjesnik'' and . As one of the founders of the
Croatian Writers' Association
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, Košutić's work was labeled as anti-governmental; after refusing to sign the
capital punishment
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verdict at the
show trial
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directed against Cardinal Stepinac in 1946, she was fired from the Croatian Publishing Institute.Sida Košutić Croatian Bibliographical Lexicon. Access date 13 July 2019.
Work
Košutić was a lyricist, developing her fundamental idea of the aspiration of the human soul to God. Her poetry expressed Christian contemplative and
metaphysical
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preoccupations, which is permeated with seeking a meaning in the mutual expression of love among men and God. Her best lyrical works come in form of the
prose poem
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Characteristics
Prose poetry is written as prose, without the line breaks associat ...
(the dialogical collection of poems , 1927). Her patriotic poetry works are authentic and deprived of
pathos
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She wrote for numerous periodicals,Those periodicals include: ''Novi čovjek'' (1926-27), ''Hrvatska prosvjeta'' (1927 –30, 1933–35, 1937–39), ''Književnik'' (1929), ''Hrvatska straža'' (1930, 1933 1938), ''Za vjeru i dom'' (1930–33, 1944), ''Hrvatska smotra'' (1933, 1935–37, 1939), ''Obitelj'' (1933, 1938, 1944), ''Glasnik sv. Ante'' (1934–37), ''Omladina'' (1934 –35, 1937–38), ''Kalendar sv. Ante'' (1935–41, 1943), ''Hrvatska revija'' (1936–40;
Buenos Aires
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1951;
München
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1968, 1975), ''Hrvatski dnevnik'' (1936–39), ''Kalendar Gospine krunice'' (1936), ''Danica'' (1938), ''Napredak'' (1938–39), ''Novi ženski list'' (1938–39), ''Morgenblatt'' (1939–40), ''Dom i svijet'' (1940), ''Hrvatski orač'' (1940), ''Hrvatska mladost'' (1943–44) and ''Glasnik bl. Nikole Tavelića'' (1944). Her works were posthumously published in literary revue ''Marulić'' (1982, 1992) and magazine ''Hrvatsko zagorje'' (1997, 2001). Source: Croatian Bibliographical Lexicon. including literary revues (, , ), Catholic and Croatian emigrant periodicals.