Mirko Vidović
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Mirko Vidović (born in
.Early life and education
He attended primary school at his native village of Bila near Livno in the period 1947-1951, and lower
Due to the practical concerns of religious service of his faith, Vidović soon came into conflict with the contemporary Youth Committee of the SKBiH: his public act of grief for the death of the Pope Pius XII brought him he conviction of ten days in prison. Teacher's council wanted to fire him from the gymnasium staff, but by the personal guarantee of the school director, Arslan Zijadić, he nevertheless managed to finish the gymnasium in Livno. His gymnasium graduation thesis brought him again the first prize of the BiH - Anthology of the works of BiH writers signed personally by A. Vuco.
After finishing the gymnasium in Livno, due to the impossibility of attending the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb due to financial difficulties, he entered the Faculty of Philosophy in Zadar instead. He graduated with the highest degree in December 1964.
Persecution
After graduating the Faculty of Philosophy, and married to a French Lucienne (b. Ravit), he serves temporarily as the editor of the Cultural chronicle in Zadar's
Having arrived to France, he enters the college again graduating literature and
After three years of harsh imprisonment in the camp of
Again living abroad as a French citizen, he published memoirs of his imprisonment under the title Skrivena strana mjeseca ("The hidden side of the moon"). The book was reprinted twice in Croatian, and completely translated to French and Italian, and partially to English and Spanish. He was officially invited as a witness of the truth of the Communist prisons at the central of Amnesty International in London, and also in the central of the International League for Human Rights. During his prison time he wrote a book of poetry Bijeli vitez ("The white knight") and has managed to send it to freedom by covert channels. That book has been published abroad in Croatian and French (in Switzerland). The other books he published abroad include Ribnjak Bethesda, Boomerang and Što je to HNV.[2]
Recognition
At the end of 1979, following an invitation of famous colleagues from Western universities, he nominated himself at the elections of the Parliament of the
As the president of the Parliament of CNC he participated in the work of the Madrid conference and, at the end of 1980, was one of the founding members of the
Works
Vidović's bibliography consists of 1280 published works, 110 of which are written in foreign languages and published all over the world. In his Homeland he has published two collections of stories from mediaeval
42 of his books are left in manuscript, covering a variety of domains, 10 of it being dramatic pieces and 12 volumes of the Philosophy of Virtuality and Reality (epistemological analysis of modern times in all the segments of human knowledge and science).
- Pjesme (with V. Paviće and S. Vučićević), 1964
- Hram nade, 1970
- Ribnjak Bethesda, 1971
- Sakrivena strana mjeseca, 1977
- Bijeli vitez, 1980
- Što je Hrvatsko narodno vijeće, 1984
- Hrvatski iranski korijeni, 1991
- Ban Kulin i krstjanska Bosna 2001
- Gatha Spitama Zarathustre 2003
- Panonija 2004
- Pad i uspon Ilirije 2005
References
- ^ "IN MEMORIAM AKADEMIK MIRKO VIDOVIĆ". 16 October 2016.
- ^ Mirko VIDOVIĆ-Intelektualac[permanent dead link]
External links
- Official weblog (in Croatian)