Summary
Anđelka Martić: Pirgo
A novel about the friendship between the five-year-old boy Željko and the fawn Pirgo in the whirlwind of the Second World War, is the best-known work of Anđelka Martić, the celebrated author of children's war fiction. Željko is a partisan child and lost his little brother in the war. He sees his father and mother only occasionally. Pirgo lost both parents and the boy Željko took care of him. A simple, warm poem written in the first person radiates humanism and is also one of the deepest condemnations of war and child suffering in Croatian literature. Until 1991, the novel was compulsory school reading, it was adapted into the film medium as a cartoon and a feature film for the school education program, it also served as a template for plays in children's theaters, and it has seen numerous editions in the country as well as translations. In 1973, the author was awarded the Order of Laughter, an award of the Republic of Poland, for the novel Pirgo.
Signature of Anđelka Martić
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