This is the first of three collected English translations of poems and prose by Nikola Šop. This collection contains works written between 1926 and 1939. In the second book, you will find collected translations of works published between 1941 and 1943. During the German bombing of Belgrade on 6 April 1941, Šop was severely injured, which left him bedridden for the rest of his life. The third book contains translations of Šop’s poetry published between 1957 and his death in 1982. By the end of World War II, Nikola Šop was declared an ’inappropriate poet’ and the Communist regime forbade him to publish his own writings.
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Croatian writer and translator Nikola Šop was born on 19 August 1904 in Jajce (Bosnia and Herzegovina), and died on 2 January 1982 in Zagreb (Croatia). In 1931, he received his diploma in comparative literature and Latin from Faculty of Philology at the University of Belgrade in Serbia. At the beginning of the World War II, after suffering severe injuries, he moved to Zagreb where he spent the rest of his life bedridden.