Enver Čolaković

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Enver Čolaković (Cyrillic: Енвер Чолаковић; 27 May 1913 – 18 August 1976) was a Bosnian, Croatian and Hungarian writer, journalist and translator, best known for his 1944 novel The Legend of Ali Pasha. During the later stages of World War II, he served as a cultural attaché to the Independent State of Croatia embassy in Budapest. After the war, he spent the rest of his life in Zagreb, where he published several literary translations from Hungarian and German.

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Biography Born in Budapest in 1913 to Bosniak father Vejsil-beg Čolaković and Hungarian mother Ilona (Fatima-Zehra) (née Mednyánszki), Čolaković spent his childhood traveling around the region, and after World War I he settled in Sarajevo. He studied physics and mathematics in Budapest and history in Zagreb. Between 1931 and 1939, Čolaković wrote in the Hungarian and German languages. Between 1939 and 1941, his works were published by a number of magazines based in Sarajevo and Zagreb, such as Osvit (Dawn), Hrvatski misao (The Croatian Thought), Hrvatski narod (The Croatian People), Hrvatsko kolo (The Croatian Circuit) and Novi behar (The New Blossom). Čolaković also wrote a series of essays and reviews in which he advocated rights for Bosnian Muslims. His comedy Moja žena krpi čarape was performed at the Sarajevo National Theatre in 1943 and later at the Banja Luka Theatre in 1944. His novel The Legend of Ali Pasha (1944) was awarded Matica hrvatska (Matrix Croatica) Award. By the end of World War II, he was a recognized and well-known writer, written about by prominent critics such as Julije Benešić, Tom Smerdel, Ljubomir Maraković and Petar Grgec. They note the different linguistic substrates of his language – the Turkish, Greek,…Citește mai mult