Enver Čolaković [SEP] cause of death
He translated the novels of Ervin Šinko and Gyula Illyés, Zoltán Kodály's oratorio "Psalmus Hungaricus" and Richard Wagner's opera "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg". Together with his wife Stella Čolaković he also created many classical music programs for radio broadcast.
Čolaković was member of Matica hrvatska, Croatian Writers' Association, the Association of Literary Translators and the Yugoslav branch of the International PEN.
Enver Čolaković died in Zagreb on 18 August 1976 of a heart attack. A street in Sarajevo and several schools in Bosnia and
Enver Čolaković
Enver Čolaković (27 May 1913 – 18 August 1976) was a Bosnian novelist, poet and translator, best known for his 1944 novel "The Legend of Ali-Pasha", written in the Bosnian language. During the later stages of World War II he served as a cultural attaché to the Independent State of Croatia embassy in Budapest. After the war he spent the rest of his life in Zagreb, where he published a number of literary translations from Hungarian and German.
Biography.
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