Writing
Ranko Marinković
Born — Died
1913-02-22 — 2001-01-28
Place of birth
Komiza, Austria-Hungary [now Croatia]
Known for
Writing
Credits
2 titles
Ranko Marinković (22 February 1913 – 28 January 2001) was a Croatian and Yugoslav novelist and dramatist. Born in Komiža on the island of Vis, then a part of Austria-Hungary, Marinković's childhood was marked by World War I. He later earned a degree in philosophy at the University of Zagreb. In the 1930s, he began to make his name in Zagreb literary circles with his plays and stories. His best known works are Glorija (1955), a play in which he criticised the Catholic Church, and Kiklop (1965), a semi-autobiographical novel in which he describes the gloomy atmosphere among Zagreb intellectuals before the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia. Kiklop was adapted into a 1982 movie directed by Antun Vrdo…
Known for
NRThe tragedy of human life is read from the personal conflict of man in which there are moments of self-deception, the pleasure of creation and dissatisfaction with achievement, like restlessness and calmness, conflict and catharsis.
Angel
1982
5.5The story is set in a small Dalmatian town. Soon after the death of a local nobleman, a girl who worked as a servant in his house, gets pregnant. Even though the father's identity remains unknown, the whole neighborhood saw a naked man jumping down from her window on that same night when the nobleman died. Local teacher who lives in that house, falls in love with the girl who decides to tell him the truth about the "naked man".
The Naked Man
1968
Behind the camera
NRThe tragedy of human life is read from the personal conflict of man in which there are moments of self-deception, the pleasure of creation and dissatisfaction with achievement, like restlessness and calmness, conflict and catharsis.
Angel
1982
5.5The story is set in a small Dalmatian town. Soon after the death of a local nobleman, a girl who worked as a servant in his house, gets pregnant. Even though the father's identity remains unknown, the whole neighborhood saw a naked man jumping down from her window on that same night when the nobleman died. Local teacher who lives in that house, falls in love with the girl who decides to tell him the truth about the "naked man".
The Naked Man
1968