Mihovil Pavlek Miškina

Mihovil Pavlek – Miškina (1887– 1942) was a Croatian poet, short story writer and politician. He was a member of the Croatian Peasant Party[1] and an opponent of the Ustaša regime.

Pavlek was born in Đelekovec, at the time in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia. His work usually embraced Socialist ideas and protested against injustice. The pseudonym "Miškina" was adopted later when he started participating in some literary activities of Yugoslavia, and labeled a "peasant writer" some time after. He supported the election of Ivica Hiršl for Mayor of Koprivnica in 1939. He was executed at the Jasenovac concentration camp in the Independent State of Croatia in 1942.[2]

Today, there are elementary schools in Zagreb and Đelekovec named after Pavlek Miškina.[3][4]

Sources

References

• "Opća enciklopedija", Zagreb, 1980.
• "Mala enciklopedija Prosveta", Belgrade, 1978.
• Miškina: "Trakavica", Zagreb, 1946.
• Šime Vučetić: "Mihovil Pavlek Miškina" u 115. knjizi edicije "Pet stoljeća hrvatske književnosti", Zagreb, 1985.
• Jovan Nedić: "Pavlek", "Skandifeniks", ..., 277, 16 - Rijeka, 2004

Citations

1. Miškina biodata, crohis.com; accessed 4 March 2016.
2. Kako je i kada ubijen ugledni HSS-ovac Mihovil Pavlek Miškina?, Hrvoje Petrić Archived 2010-02-24 at the Wayback Machine, povijest.net; accessed 4 March 2016.
3. http://os-pmiskine-zg.skole.hr/
4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-09. Retrieved 2016-03-09.

Further reading

• Kolar Dimitrijević, Mira (May 2006). "Književnik Mihovil Pavlek Miškina i politika" [Writer Mihovil Pavlek Miškina and Politics] (PDF). Podravina (in Croatian). 5 (9): 32–48. Retrieved 9 March 2016.