Josip Kosor

{{short description|Croatian novelist and playwright}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1879|1|27|df=y}}

| birth_place = Tribounj, Kingdom of Dalmatia, Austria-Hungary
{{small|(now {{ill|Trbounje|hr}}, Croatia)}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1961|1|23|1879|1|27|df=y}}

| death_place = Dubrovnik, SFR Yugoslavia
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| occupation = playwright, novelist, poet

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Josip Kosor ({{IPA|hr|jǒsip kǒsor}}; 27 January 1879 – 23 January 1961) was a Croatian novelist, poet, and playwright. Starting as a novelist depicting peasant life in Dalmatia, Kosor "graduated into a naturalist dramatist of some power".{{cite book|author=Martin Seymour-Smith|authorlink=Martin Seymour-Smith|title=The new guide to modern world literature|url=https://archive.org/details/newguidetomodern00seym|url-access=registration|accessdate=26 November 2012|year=1985|publisher=P. Bedrick Books|isbn=978-0-87226-000-9|page=[https://archive.org/details/newguidetomodern00seym/page/1302 1302]}}

He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show_people.php?id=4993 |title=Nomination Database|website=nobelprize.org|access-date=2017-04-19}}

His plays Passion's Furnace (1912), The Invincible Ship (1921), and Reconciliation (1923) were translated for performance in England.{{cite book|author=Vasa D. Mihailovich|editor=Stanley Hochman|title=McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama: An International Reference Work in 5 Volumes|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=88xIQiXVMCQC&pg=PA198|accessdate=26 November 2012|year=1984|publisher=VNR AG|isbn=978-0-07-079169-5|page=198|chapter=Yugoslav Drama}}