Born Zagreb, Croatia; married with two children. Awards: Cash prize and performance by Louisville Orchestra, for composition "Reflections" Instrumental; Divertimento for Wind Septet; Poems and Rhymes violoncello or viola and piano , Fanfare and Processional brass and percussion ; Music compositions, including background score for feature length Chile Films production "El Paso Maldito" ; symphonic works played by Detroit, Louisville, Oklahoma City and University of Kansas symphony orchestras and the Zagreb Philharmonic.
Professor of South Slavic Languages and Literatures, author of many books and articles, cultural historian and literary critic, Kadic was born on January 18, in the village of Krug, Lower Po1jica near Split, Southern Croatia Daltmatia. After graduating from the Classical Gymnasium in Split he pursued theological, philosophical and biblical studies in the same city. He continued these studies in Rome, where in he received his Ph.
After achieving licentiate in Semitic languages in , he traveled to Palestine. By he completed his studies at the Institute of Political Sciences, also in Geneva. As an official of the United Nations he worked in Geneva and Paris; from to he was employed in Lebanon for the U.
In by way of India, Burma and Japan he arrived as an immigrant in California. In he started to teach at Indiana University in Bloomington where he became a full professor in He taught there until his retirement in Since he was assigned to teach contemporary Russian Literature as well, he visited Moscow and Leningrad in and This collection of essays, like many of his articles, studies, and books deals not only with literary themes but with cultural, social and political history as well.
Both books discuss a variety of subjects, many writers, poets, distinguished Croatians in foreign countries, and the problems of emigration. Over the years Kadic has published many articles and some lengthy studies and critical analyses on numerous subjects in various Croatian papers and periodicals. His contribution to Hrvatska Revija-Croatian Review, an excellent quarterly published in Barcelona by Vinko Nikolic, now in its thirty-second year is outstanding.
