Antun Pasko Kazali was a Croatian folk-writer, poet and translator. Born in Dubrovnik

Dubrovnik

Dubrovnik is a Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea coast, positioned at the terminal end of the Isthmus of Dubrovnik. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations on the Adriatic, a seaport and the centre of Dubrovnik-Neretva county. Its total population is 42,641...

/Ragusa, he went to school in Dubrovnik, studying philosophy and theology in Zadar/Zara. He was a parish priest in Ošljemu at Stone and chaplain in Sipan

Sipán

Sipán is a Moche archaeological site in northern Peru that is famous for the tomb of El Señor de Sipán , excavated by Walter Alva and his wife Susana Meneses. It is considered to be one of the most important archaeological discoveries in the last 30 years, because the main tomb was found intact...

. As a parish priest he often came into conflict with church authorities. He spent his most creative period in Zadar, starting in 1855. He was professor at the gymnasium in Zadar, teaching Latin, Greek and Croatian (1855-1861), and in 1862 became a professor at Rijeka/Fiume gymnasium. The last ten years of his life were spent in Dubrovnik.

He has written Spjev Zlatka (published in Zadar in 1856), Trista VICA widow (Zadar, 1857), A voice from the wilderness (Zadar, 1861) and Grobnik (Rijeka, 1863). Several other works are in manuscript and the best known is Spjev Ćoso, an autobiographical poem. He was an associate and writer for the Zora Dalmatinska journal, and edited the newspapers Zadar Glasnik Dalmatinski and Smotritelj Dalmatinski. He spoke 11 world languages. The special value of his literary work is recognized in Croatian national maritime terminology.

He died in Dubrovnik.