Ivo Kozarčanin was a Croatian writer, poet and literary critic.

Soon after his birth Kozarčanin's family moved to the Hungarian

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 town of Oreglak

Öreglak

Öreglak is a village in Somogy county, Hungary.- External links :*...

, where his faither worked on the railroad. With the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918 his family returned to Hrvatska Dubica

Hrvatska Dubica

Hrvatska Dubica is a village and a municipality in central Croatia in the Sisak-Moslavina county. It is located on the northern bank of the river Una, east of Hrvatska Kostajnica and southwest of Jasenovac and Novska. The municipality of Hrvatska Dubica has a population of 2,341 , 90.13% which are...

 where Kozarčanin attended elementary and merchant schools. In 1923 he came to Zagreb

Zagreb

Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...

 where he continued his education. In 1932 he enrolled at the University of Zagreb

University of Zagreb

The University of Zagreb is the biggest Croatian university and the oldest continuously operating university in the area covering Central Europe south of Vienna and all of Southeastern Europe...

's Faculty of Philosophy. From 1938 he was the editor of the cultural magazine Hrvatski dnevnik. He died after being attacked by a member of the Royal Yugoslav Army on February 4, 1941.

Works

• Mati čeka (1934)
• Sviram u sviralu (1935)
• Lirika (1935)
• Tuga ljeta
• Mrtve oči
• Tuđa žena (1937)
• Sam čovjek (1937)
• Tihi putovi (1939)