Pen name Joza Name Joza Horvat Genre novele | Period 1935 Occupation Writer Role Writer | |
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Notable works Ciguli Miguli (1952)Macak pod sljemom (1962)Besa–brodski dnevnik (1973)Operacija "Stonoga" (1982)Waitapu (1984)Svjedok prolaznosti (2005) Education Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb Movies Ciguli Miguli, Macak pod sljemom, The Flag, Find a Way, Comrade, Dobra kob, Krhka igracka, Kad jeleni zovu Children Marko Horvat, Radovan-Mico Horvat Books Waitapu, Operation "Centipede", Tomcat under a Helmet Awards Order of Danica Hrvatska with the image of Marko Marulic, Vladimir Nazor Award for Lifetime Achievement | ||
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Josip "Joža" Horvat (10 March 1915 – 26 October 2012) was a Croatian writer. He was the author of many novels, short stories, dramas, screenplays, essays and radio dramas, translated into at least nine languages, including Russian, Chinese and Esperanto.
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Life and career
Horvat was born in Kotoriba, Međimurje County, at the time in Austria-Hungary. During World War II he fought in Yugoslav Partisans, which later inspired the novel Mačak pod šljemom (Tomcat under a Helmet, 1962) which had a somewhat ironical view of the partisan movement, adapted both into a feature film and a miniseries. The screenplay Ciguli Miguli (1952), critical of bureaucracy, briefly brought him into disfavour with the Communist party authorities, on which occasion he turned to sailing.
In mid-1960s Horvat and his family sailed the world in the sailing yacht Besa, and his travel journal Besa–brodski dnevnik (Besa–Ship's Log, 1973) became a best-seller. The second trip around the world was marked by tragedy: Horvat’s older son, who stayed back, died in a traffic accident in 1973, and his younger son drowned in Venezuela in 1975.
After a period of deep crisis Horvat published two acclaimed novels inspired by these events, Operacija "Stonoga" (Operation "Centipede", 1982), about a search for a lost island in the Atlantic, and Waitapu (1984), about a Pacific Islander boy who decides to sail across a taboo line. His last work is a memoir titled Svjedok prolaznosti (A Witness to Impermanence, 2005).
Horvat attended the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb and served as a secretary of Matica hrvatska.
