Ivo Vojnović

Ivan "Ivo" Vojnović (also Iván de Vojnovich; 9 October 1857 – 30 August 1929) was a Croatian and Serbian writer from Dubrovnik. He is often nicknamed "The last great Dubrovnik writer".

Biography

Vojnović was born in Dubrovnik as the second son of Count Konstantin Vojnović (1832–1903) and María de Serraglí (1836–1922) on 9 October 1857 in Dubrovnik, the Habsburg Monarchy. He was a member of the noble House of Vojnović. The city of his birth and its history had an important influence on his later literary work. Most of his childhood however he spent in Split.

As a young man he moved to Zagreb where he attended the University of Zagreb (Faculty of Law). In 1914 he went back to Dubrovnik where the Austrian-Hungarian government imprisoned him in a Šibenik jail "as a well known Yugoslavian nationalist".

Until 1884 he served as a trainee of the "Kings official desk" in Zagreb. After that he continued his judicial career in Križevci, Bjelovar, Zadar, Dubrovnik. His career as a judicial official ended when he was fired from the office in Supetar on the island of Brač. He then worked in the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, where he worked for four years. In 1911 he became a professional writer and travelled in Italy. ^{[citation needed]}

Vojnović entered literature in 1880 when August Šenoa's Vienac published his short story "Geranijum" under the pseudonym Sergej P. Matica hrvatska under the leadership of Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski published his novels Perom i olovkom in (1884) and Ksanta (1888) under the same pseudonym. ^{[citation needed]}

Vojnović was the author of dramas of naturalistic cut, inspired by the literary and patriotic traditions of the Republic of Dubrovnik. He is known for his Dubrovačka trilogija (Dubrovnik Trilogy, 1902, Zagreb) - a trilogy in which he describes the fall of the Dubrovnik Republic. His other works include: Death of the Mother of the Jugović (1906) and Resurrection of Lazarus (1913). He is the author of psychological dramas such as: Lady of the Sunflower (1912; filmed in 1918 by Michael Curtiz), and of pieces such as: Dance of Masks in the Attic (1922), which reflect the influence of Luigi Pirandello on Vojnović. Vojnović died in Belgrade in 1929, blind and stricken with illness. ^{[citation needed]}

His grandson was the noted Russian writer and dissident Vladimir Voinovich.

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