Jure Kaštelan

Croatian poet and writer.In 1942 he joined the National Liberation Struggle and worked with the Partisan press. After the war, he completed his degree in Slavic languages and worked as a reporter for the newspaper Vjesnik, as an editor for a publishing company called "Nopok," and then as the assistant Chair of the department of Yugoslav literature at the Faculty of Arts in Zagreb. He taught Serbo-Croatian language at the Sorbonne. In 1957 he defended his dissertation on the poetry of Antun Gustaf Matoš. Afterwards he lectured on theory of literature at the Zagreb Faculty of Arts. Among his most famous poems are the cycle "Tifusari" (Typhus Victims). (source: Wikipedia). He was married with Nada Subotić, famous Croatian theatre actress.