Vinko Nikolić


Vinko Nikolić was a Croatian writer, poet and journalist, and a high-ranking official in the fascist Independent State of Croatia. After the downfall of NDH, he emigrated to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he lived in exile until returning to Croatia, several years before his death.

Biography

Vinko Nikolić was born in Šibenik in 1912. He attended elementary school and Catholic gymnasium in his birth town. He joined the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zagreb and graduated in 1937.
As a professor at the Commercial Academy he saw political changes in Yugoslavia in 1939, the most significant of which was the creation of Banovina Croatia. For much of World War II he was an adjutant at Supreme Ustaša Headquarters. Supreme Ustaša Headquarters directed the operation of the Independent State of Croatia.
At the end of World War II he retreated to Austria with the rest of the Ustaša army and civilians. During his stay in Austria he gained status as a prisoner of war, and left for another camp in Italy. During his transfer to the other camp, he jumped out of a train. To avoid extradition to Yugoslavia, Nikolić went to Buenos Aires, Argentina, arriving there on 8 June 1947.
At first he lived in an old house with Ante Pavelić. He worked as a journalist, and along with Franjo Nevistić, he published the magazine Hrvatska which he edited until June 1950. In the same year, along with Antun Bonifačić, he published the Croatian emigrant magazine Hrvatska revija, which he edited from the first published issue of magazine in 1951 until his death.
He edited other Croatian emigrant magazines, including Ave, Hrvatski vitez, Oganj, Novi život, Za Boga i Hrvatsku, Danica, La Croatie, Osoba i duh, Islam, Glasnik društva Muslimana Austrije, Hrvatski radnik, Hrvatska gruda, Hrvatska sloboda and Rakovica. After the fall of Yugoslavia, he returned to his birthplace of Šibenik, where he died on 12 July 1997.

Works

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