Antun Gustav Matoš

Antun Gustav Matoš
Born	13 June 1873 Tovarnik, Kingdom of Croatia
Died	17 March 1914 (aged 41) Zagreb, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia
Occupation	Poet, journalist
Nationality	Croatian
Period	Modernism
Genre	Poetry, novella, feuilleton
Subject	Landscapes, patriotism

Antun Gustav Matoš (Croatian pronunciation: [ǎntuːn ɡûstaʋ mâtoʃ]; 13 June 1873 – 17 March 1914) was a Croatian poet, short story writer, journalist, essayist and travelogue writer. He is considered the champion of Croatian modernist literature, opening Croatia to the currents of European modernism.

Matoš was born in Tovarnik, in the eastern Croatian region of Syrmia. In September 1875, when he was two years old, his parents moved to Zagreb, where he went to primary and secondary school. His attempt to study at the Military Veterinary College in Vienna in 1891 ended in failure due to an illness. He was conscripted in 1893, but he deserted in August 1894, fleeing from Croatia to Šabac and then to Belgrade. He spent the next three years in Belgrade, living in his own words as a "cello player, journalist, and man of letters". In January 1898 he traveled to Vienna and Munich, stayed for a while in Geneva, and then moved to Paris in 1899, where he would stay for five years. During his stay in Paris, he wrote his greatest stories. In 1904 he returned to Belgrade, visiting Zagreb in secret (as he was still wanted as a deserter) twice that year and again in 1906 and 1907. Finally, in 1908, after thirteen years abroad, he was pardoned and finally settled in Zagreb. In December 1913, as his health was failing, he was admitted to the Sisters of Charity Hospital where he died in March 1914 of throat cancer. He wrote two dozen published or unpublished works: poems, short stories, articles, travelogues, criticisms and disputes.

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