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Đuro Vilović
Born(1889-12-11)11 December 1889
Brela, Kingdom of Dalmatia, Austria-Hungary
Died22 December 1958(1958-12-22) (aged 69)
Bjelovar, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia
OccupationWriter
LanguageCroatian
PeriodInterwar

Đuro Vilović (11 December 1889  – 22 December 1958) was a Yugoslav publicist, one of the most widely read and controversial writers of Croatian interwar literature and a member of the Chetniks.[1][2]

Initially, a Croatian nationalist and a Roman Catholic priest, Vilović left the Roman Catholic church, joining a Serbian nationalist Chetnik movement during World War II and becoming a close ally of Draža Mihailović, for which he was sentenced to 7 years in prison at the Belgrade Process in 1946 by the new communist regime. He died on 22 December 1958 in Bjelovar.[1][2]

Biography

Vilović completed gymnasium high school in Split and theology program in Zadar.[3] Between 1913 and 1915 he was a Roman Catholic priest after which he went to study philosophy in Vienna.[3] He was prosecuted for World War II collaboration after the end of the war.[3]

Literature works

Vilović was a significant author of Croatian literature. During the Interwar period, he was one of the most popular writers in Yugoslavia.[1]

Novels

  • Aesthete (1919)
  • Međumurje (1923)
  • Three Hours (1925)
  • The Master of the Soul (1931)
  • The Bell Mourned the Virgin (1938)

Short stories

  • A Stale Life (1923)
  • Mandorlato (1924)
  • Croatian North and South (1930).

References

  1. ^ a b c "Vilović, Đuro | Hrvatska enciklopedija". www.enciklopedija.hr. Retrieved 2021-04-14.
  2. ^ a b "Gordana Vilović : Moj stric Ðuro politički je loše prosuđivao". mvinfo.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 2021-04-14.
  3. ^ a b c Krešimir Georgijević (1971). Živan Milisavac (ed.). Jugoslovenski književni leksikon [Yugoslav Literary Lexicon]. Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia: Matica srpska. p. 567.
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