LITERARY WRITERS AND OTHER WRITERS FROM VELEBIT PODGORJE

Sa？etak Velebit Podgorje, i.e. the foothill area of the littoral slope of Velebit between Sveti Juraj and the Zrmanja, due to the demographic, geographic, economic and political circumstances, is not a region of intensive indigenous individual spiritual creativity. Therefore from this point of view it is possible to talk about it mainly as the birthplace of cultural creators – literary writers, publicists and scientists who continued their lives in more developed settings and there gave corresponding contributions to Croatia culture and science. 22 authors from the fields of literature, non-fiction, journalism and various sciences who were born in Velebit Podgorje are mentioned in the paper. In the form of lexical entries it reports the facts of their lives and creativity which are recorded in the relevant and available sources available to the author of this text