Rajko Grlić

Rajko Grlić is a film director, producer and screenwriter. Born in Zagreb, he graduated in film directing at FAMU in Prague, Czech Republic 1971.

As director and scriptwriter he worked on eleven theatrical features. These films were shown in cinemas across all five continents, they were included in competition programmes of leading world festivals, from Cannes onwards, and they received a numerous international awards.

He has worked on five feature films as scriptwriter and on five as producer.
He wrote, directed and produced How to Make Your Movie; An Interactive Film School, which was proclaimed the Best World Multi-media in 1998.

He is Ohio Eminent Scholar in Film at Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA.

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Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the World Fantasy Award, the Tanizaki Prize, Yomiuri Prize for Literature, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Noma Literary Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction, the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, and the Princess of Asturias Awards.
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In 1989 Grunberg made his acting debut in Maria's Cunt (de Kut van Maria); a short film by Dutch enfant terrible filmmaker Cyrus Frisch.

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He is among the most widely read contemporary Croatian prose writers.

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Dejan Tiago Stanković, author and literary translator.

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