Original scientific paper
Writer Božena Loborec: Contribution for a Biography
Dijana Sabolović Krajina
; Fran Galović Public Library, Koprivnica, Croatia
Abstract
This article describes the life of Božena Loborec, writer (Koprivnica, 2.6.1926.- Koprivnica, 3.1. 2003.) and her special position in the life of the Town of Koprivnica in the 20th century and the very beginning od the 21st century. The insights into her journal articles and published books, personal documents, memories of her friends and students, literary-theoretical esseays on her works and interviews are the basis for reconstruction of life and work of Božena Loborec. She was growing up between two world wars in the family of Koprivnica famous printer Valko Loborec. Childhood and youth years in surroundings (with nourished book and literature cult) where cult of book was nourishing were inspirative for her futher literary and journal work. Another inspirations were Koprivnica, town where she was born and spent almost the whole of her life (except the war years in partisans 1943-1945, academic schooling in Zagreb 1947-1953, and teacher work in Kotoriba 1953-1955) , as well as people of Koprivnica. Koprivnica was a source of themes and motives for her poetry, novels, stories, essays, satires, feuilletons, publicist writing, journal articles, her constant inspiration, even obsesion. By writing for children, youth and adults Božena Loborec was a writer of Koprivnica. The artistic and literary value of her work (i.e., six published books during her life and two books published post mortem), and the new (literary) reality she created, significantly differentiate her literacy from other native county local production and mere diary records about some town life.
Keywords
Božena Loborec; writer; mother- tongue teacher; public library directress; partisans; schooling; Valko Loborec Printng-house; Town of Koprivnica
Hrčak ID:
78151
URI
Publication date:
1.12.2007.
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