Isak Samokovlija
Isak Samokovlija | |
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SFR Yugoslavia | |
Occupation | Writer, academic |
Alma mater | University of Vienna |
Subject | Jewish life in Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Spouse | Hedda Samokovlija (née Brunner) |
Isak Samokovlija (3 September 1889 – 15 January 1955) was a Bosnian writer. By profession he was a physician. His stories describe the life of the
Biography
Samokovlija was born into a
After completing primary school Samokovlija went to Sarajevo. He attended high school with Ivo Andrić, the first Yugoslav to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.[2] After graduating high school in 1910, he received a scholarship from local Jewish charity La Benevolencija to study medicine in Vienna.[2][3] Later he worked as a doctor in the towns Goražde and Fojnica (1921–25)[4] before beginning a regular job at Sarajevo's Koševo hospital in 1925.
At the beginning of the
His first short story Rafina avlija was published in 1927 and two years later his first collection of stories, Od proljeća do proljeća, came out. Several of his stories were made into television films and his book Hanka was made into a film
Bibliography
- Rafina avlija (1927, Rafo's Yard)
- Od proljeća do proljeća (1929, From Spring to Spring)
- Nosač Samuel, (1946, Samuel the Porter)
- Solomunovo slovo, (1949, Solomun's Letter)
- Hanka (Hanka)
- Plava Jevrejka (The Blond Jewess)
- On je lud (He is Crazy)
- Fuzija (Fusion)
- Tragom života (Following Life)
- Đerdan (The Necklace)
- Priča o radostima (A Story of Joy)
Further reading
Palavestra, Predrag (2000). "Jewish Writers in Serbian Literature: Isak Samokovlija" (PDF). Journal of the North American Society for Serbian Studies. 14 (1). Translated by E.D. Goy; Jasna Levinger-Goy. Bloomington, IN, USA: Slavica Publishers: 65–68.
References
- ^ "(Ne)pročitani velikan naše književnosti". Slobodna Bosna. 24 January 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
- ^ ISBN 085303331-5.
- ^ "Isak Samokovlija - veliki bh. književnik i doktor". Radio Sarajevo. 3 September 2013. Archived from the original on 8 January 2015. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
- ^ "Manifestacija 'Dani Isaka Samokovlije - Sunce nad Drinom'". Radio Sarajevo. 14 January 2014. Archived from the original on 8 January 2015. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
- ^ "Sjećanje na Isaka Samokovliju, književnika i oca Nosača Samuela". Radio Sarajevo. 15 January 2014. Archived from the original on 8 January 2015. Retrieved 8 January 2015.