Mate Maras
Mate Maras | |
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| Born | 2 April 1939 |
| Nationality | Croat |
| Alma mater | Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb |
| Occupation(s) | Translator, writer and poet |
| Known for | His Croatian translations of Shakespeare, Rabelais, Dante, and others |
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Mate Maras (born 2 April 1939) is a Croatian translator. He has translated many famous classical and contemporary works from English, Italian and French into Croatian. He is the only man who translated the complete works of William Shakespeare into Croatian. His translation of Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel earned him the grand prix of the French Academy. He wrote the first Croatian rhyming dictionary.