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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. == 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 anti-war novel ''Mačak pod šljemom'' (''Tomcat under a Helmet'', 1962), 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.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joža Horvat」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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