István Blazsetin (1963)

Blazsetin István (Croatian: Stjepan Blažetin) (Nagykanizsa, Hungary, January 7, 1963) is a Croatian poet, literature critic, literature historian and literature theorist, translator and anthologist from Hungary. He translates literary works from Hungarian to the Croatian language.

Biography

Stjepan Blažetin is the son of the Croatian poet from Hungary, Stipan Blažetin. Since government policy at the time of Stjepan's birth allowed only Hungarian names and prohibited Croatian names, both of them have the first name "István" in official documents.[1]

Currently Stjepan Blažetin works in the Department of Croatistics[2] in the Faculty of Philosophy (Faculty of Humanities, part of University of Pécs) in Pécs. Blažetin performs the duty of scientific secretary of Scientific Institute of Croats of Hungary.

He has participated in the international scientific meeting Riječki filološki dani [3] with the topics Hungarian anthologies of Croatian poetry from WWII until today and Ranko Marinković's Kiklop in Hungarian.

He's a contributor to the Croatian minority self-government annual magazine from Budapest Hrvatski kalendar.

He began writing poetry in 1991. HIs first published work also included poems written by the Hungarian Serb Dragomir Dujmov.

According to literature critics, with the works of Stjepan Blažetin the poetry in Croatian of Hungarian Croats has entered the postmodern era. Blažetin's poetry is influenced by the poetry of Joja Ricov.[1]

Works

Blažetin translated from Hungarian into Croatian Paklene priče of Tvrtko Vujić and the works of Miklos Radnoti.

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 Đuro Vidmarović: Teme o Hrvatima u Mađarskoj, Naklada Bošković, Split, 2008., p. 139-145
  2. ↑ (in Hungarian) Horvát Tanszék Kroatisztikai-Szlavisztikai Tanszék
  3. ↑ FFRi Web - Riječki filološki dani

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