Tin Ujević
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| Born | Augustin Josip Ujević 5 July 1891 Vrgorac, Austro-Hungarian Empire |
| Died | 12 November 1955 (aged 64) Zagreb, PR Croatia, Yugoslavia |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Language | Croatian |
| Ethnicity | Croatian |
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Augustin Josip "Tin" Ujević (pronounced [auɡǔstin tîːn ûːjeʋitɕ]; 5 July 1891 – 12 November 1955) was a Croatian poet, considered to be the greatest poet in 20th century Croatian literature, one of the finest Southern Slavic lyrical poets and one of the great poets of Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. From 1921, he ceased to sign his name as Augustin, thereafter using the signature Tin Ujević.
Ujević was born in Vrgorac, a small town in the Dalmatian hinterland, and attended school in Imotski, Makarska, Split and Zagreb. He completed gymnasium in Split, and in Zagreb he studied Croatian language and literature, classical Philology, Philosophy, and Aesthetics.
In 1909, while studying literature, his first sonnet "Za novim vidicima" (For New Horizons) appeared in the journal Mlada Hrvatska (Young Croatia). After the assassination attempts on the ban Slavko Cuvaj in 1912, Ujević became active in the Nationalist youth movement and was repeatedly imprisoned. On the eve of the First World War, he lived briefly in Dubrovnik, Šibenik, Zadar, Rijeka and for a longer time in Split. The crucial period for his political and poetic consciousness was his visit to Paris (1913–19).
After the death of A.G. Matoš in 1914, Ujević published an essay about his teacher in the literary magazine Savremenik. That same year the anthology of poetry inspired by Matoš, "Hrvatska mlada lirika" (Croatian Young Lyrics) brought together the work of 12 young poets, including 10 poems by Tin Ujević. Also in that year, Ujević joined the French Foreign Legion, though he left again after 3 months at the urging of Frano Supilo.
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