Drago Gervais was a Croatia

Croatia

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n Istria

Istria

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n poet and playwright, one of the most prominent authors of Istrian poetry in Chakavian dialect

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Drago Gervais was born in 1904 in Opatija. His father Artur who was descendant of a French soldier who came there during Napoleon's occupation was music teacher born in Severin na Kupi

Severin na Kupi

Severin na Kupi is a village in Croatia. It is part of Vrbovsko in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County. It is connected by the D3 highway.-References:...

 in Gorski kotar

Gorski kotar

Gorski kotar is the mountainous region in Croatia between Karlovac and Rijeka. Together with Lika and the Ogulin-Plaški valley it forms Mountainous Croatia. Because 63% of its surface is forested it is popularly called the green lungs of Croatia or Croatian Switzerland...

 region and his mother Klementina was native from Opatija. He had one sister Blanka. In 1918 because of Italian anexation of Istria he moves with his family to Bakar

Bakar

Bakar ) is a town in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County in western Croatia. The population of the town is 1,566 , while the population of the municipality is 7,773. 90% declare themselves Croats . The old part of Bakar is situated on a hill overlooking the Bay of Bakar...

. In 1922 he graduates in Sušak

Sušak

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 lycée and goes to Zagreb Law School. During his study he starts to cooperate with Triest magazine Naš Glas where he published his first two poems Iz Improvizacija and Mi. After his second year study he moves to Ljubljana

Ljubljana

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 Law School, but finishes his senior year in Zagreb

Zagreb

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. Soon after his diploma he moves to Crikvenica

Crikvenica

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 where he finds a job in local law firm. Next year he publishes his first collection of Poems Čakavski stihovi. Later he worked in Bjelovar

Bjelovar

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 and Belgrade

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 where he spent war years.

After the war he goes back Istria but went back to Belgrade where he worked for state news agency Tanjug and ministry of foreign affairs but soon went back to Rijeka

Rijeka

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 were he became director of Rijeka's Croatian National theater Ivan Zajc and remained on this position until his sudden death in car accident near Sežana

Sežana

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in 1957.

Comedies

• Radi se o stanu (1951)
• Karolina Riječka (1952)
• Duhi (1953)
• Reakcionari
• Brod je otplovio
• Čudo od djevice Ivane
• Palmin List
• Ujak iz Amerike