page_title: Gustav Krklec
hierarchical_section_title: Gustav Krklec
caption_attribution_description: Slovenščina: Gustav Krklec, Croatian writer.
context_page_description: Gustav Krklec was a Croatian writer and translator.
  Krklec was born in 1899 in Udbinja near Karlovac. In 1900, he moved with his family to Maruševec, a village near Varaždin. He studied in Vienna and Zagreb. In his youth, he worked as a journalist. Since 1922 he lived in Belgrade, working as a secretary at the stock exchange, and as an editor of Nolit. In 1945 he returned to Zagreb, where he worked as an editor in several publishing houses and magazines.
  In the period 1950–1954 he served as the president of Matica hrvatska.
  He is one of the most significant Croatian poets of the first half of 20th century. His verses are marked by simplicity and the suggestibility of expression, by formal and metric artistry, and are characterised by the motifs of life's joy, anxiety and solitude.
  His nephew Nikola Mauracher, the son of his eldest brother Valentin, lives in Vienna, owner of "Pension Mozart" and is married to the Austrian-Russian conductor and pianist Gal Rasché.
  His published poetical collections include:
  Lirika
  Srebrna cesta
  Nove pjesme
  Ljubav ptica
  Izlet u nebo
  San pod brezom
  Darovi za bezimenu
  Tamnica vremena
  He also wrote literary critics, essays and feuilletons:
context_section_description: Gustav Krklec (23 June 1899 – 30 October 1977) was a Croatian writer and translator.
  Krklec was born in 1899 in Udbinja near Karlovac. In 1900, he moved with his family to Maruševec, a village near Varaždin. He studied in Vienna and Zagreb. In his youth, he worked as a journalist. Since 1922 he lived in Belgrade, working as a secretary at the stock exchange, and as an editor of Nolit. In 1945 he returned to Zagreb, where he worked as an editor in several publishing houses and magazines.
  In the period 1950–1954 he served as the president of Matica hrvatska.
  He is one of the most significant Croatian poets of the first half of 20th century. His verses are marked by simplicity and the suggestibility of expression, by formal and metric artistry, and are characterised by the motifs of life's joy, anxiety and solitude.
  His nephew Nikola Mauracher (Krklec), the son of his eldest brother Valentin, lives in Vienna, owner of "Pension Mozart" and is married to the Austrian-Russian conductor and pianist Gal Rasché.
  His published poetical collections include:
  Lirika (1919)
  Srebrna cesta (1921)
  Nove pjesme (1923)
  Ljubav ptica (1926)
  Izlet u nebo (1928)
  San pod brezom (1940)
  Darovi za bezimenu (1942)
  Tamnica vremena (1944)
  He also wrote literary critics, essays and feuilletons:
  Lica i krajolici (1954)
  Pisma Martina Lipnjaka iz provincije (1956)
  Noćno iverje (1960)
  He also wrote a novel Beskućnici (1921). He translated works from German, Russian, Czech and Slovene. He died in Zagreb.
caption: Gustav Krklec in 1969
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