2025100th Anniversary of the Death of Antun Branko Simic - First Day Cover

Antun Branko Šimić, a great Croatian poet, critic, and translator, one of the most prominent Croatian poets of modernism, was born in Drinovci on November 18, 1898. After completing three years at the Franciscan Classical Gymnasium in Široki Brijeg, he briefly stayed in Mostar, then enrolled in the fourth year of high school in Vinkovci, and continued his studies at the Lower Town Gymnasium in Zagreb. At the age of fifteen, he published a poem in the magazine “Luč”, and his early landscape lyric poems were published from 1913 to 1917. After being forced to leave high school because the school authorities did not allow students to publish public prints, he devoted himself entirely to writing.