Slavenka Drakulić
Slavenka Drakulić (1949) is a noted Croatian writer and publicist, whose books have been translated into many languages.
In her fiction Drakulić has touched on a variety of topics, such as dealing with illness and fear of death in Holograms of fear; the destructive power of sexual desire in Marble skin; an unconventional relationship in The taste of a man; cruelty of war and rape victims in S. A Novel About the Balkans (made into a feature film As If I Am Not There, directed by Juanita Wilson); a fictionalized life of Frida Kahlo in Frida's bed. In her novel Optužena (English translation forthcoming), Drakulić writes about the not often addressed topic of child abuse by her own mother. In her novel Dora i Minotaur Drakulic writes about Dora
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Henry Rousso first worked on the history of the Second World War and post-war period. His early writings focused on political and economic history of the Vichy regime. Then he turned to a history of memory of the war and spent much of his thinking to the history of collective memory and uses of the past. He is currently working in a multidisciplinary and comparative perspective on the relationship between history, memory and justice, and more generally on the epistemology of contemporary history.
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Since 2003 he has been the general editor of the new Penguin Modern Classics translations of Sigmund Freud. He is also a regular contributor to the London Review of Books.
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Μαρία Ιορδανίδου
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Γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1897 και έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στον Πειραιά και το Βατούμ της Ρωσίας. Φοίτησε σε ρωσικό γυμνάσιο, στη Σταυρούπολη, όπου τη βρήκε η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση. Το 1919 γύρισε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και λίγο αργότερα πήγε στην Αλεξάνδρεια, όπου παντρεύτηκε τον Ιορδάνη Ιορδανίδη. Το 1923 επέστρεψαν μαζί στην Αθήνα, αλλά σύντομα ο Ιορδανίδης έφυγε.
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Marina Vujčić
Marina Vujčić rođena je 1966. u Trogiru. Na Filozofskom fakultetu u Zagrebu diplomirala je kroatistiku.
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U nakladi izdavačke kuće Profil 2010. godine objavljuje roman "Tuđi život", a 2014. u izdanju Hena coma knjigu drama "Umri ženski" i roman "A onda je Božo krenuo ispočetka" koji je 2015. godine ušao u uži izbor od četiri hrvatska naslova nominirana za Europsku nagradu za književnost.
Za dramu "Umri ženski" 2014. godine dobila je nagradu Marin Držić, a za dramu "Podmornica" istu nagradu 2017. godine.
2015. godine u izdanju Hena coma objavljuje roman "Mogla sam to biti ja".
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Tamara Duda
Ukrainian pen name is Горіха Зерня.
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Tamara Horikha Zernya (Tamara Duda) was born and raised in Kyiv. A poetry and prose author as well as a songwriter, she holds a degree in journalism from Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv. Daughter is her debut novel and has received favourable reviews from both literary critics and well-established Ukrainian writers. With the outbreak of war in Eastern Ukraine, Tamara took a leave of absence from her career to serve as a volunteer at the front. In 2014 and 2015, she and her husband raised funds for, purchased, and delivered equipment and aid to Ukrainian soldiers to the front. -
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Μαρία Ιορδανίδου
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Γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1897 και έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στον Πειραιά και το Βατούμ της Ρωσίας. Φοίτησε σε ρωσικό γυμνάσιο, στη Σταυρούπολη, όπου τη βρήκε η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση. Το 1919 γύρισε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και λίγο αργότερα πήγε στην Αλεξάνδρεια, όπου παντρεύτηκε τον Ιορδάνη Ιορδανίδη. Το 1923 επέστρεψαν μαζί στην Αθήνα, αλλά σύντομα ο Ιορδανίδης έφυγε.
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Μαρία Ιορδανίδου
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Γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1897 και έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στον Πειραιά και το Βατούμ της Ρωσίας. Φοίτησε σε ρωσικό γυμνάσιο, στη Σταυρούπολη, όπου τη βρήκε η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση. Το 1919 γύρισε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και λίγο αργότερα πήγε στην Αλεξάνδρεια, όπου παντρεύτηκε τον Ιορδάνη Ιορδανίδη. Το 1923 επέστρεψαν μαζί στην Αθήνα, αλλά σύντομα ο Ιορδανίδης έφυγε.
Εξαιτίας των συνθηκών της ζωής της, η Ιορδανίδου απέκτησε μεγάλη γλωσσομάθεια και εργάστηκε ως ιδιωτική υπάλληλος. Έγινε γνωστή στο λογοτεχνικό χώρο με το έργο Λωξάντρα, που έγραψε σε ηλικία 65 χρονών, το 1962, και γνώρισε πολλές επανεκδόσεις. Η Λωξάντρα περιγράφει με μεγάλη ζωντάνια και χιούμορ τα έθιμα και τη ζωή των Ελλήνων της Πόλης και βασίζεται -
Μαρία Ιορδανίδου
Maria Iordanidou
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Γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1897 και έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στον Πειραιά και το Βατούμ της Ρωσίας. Φοίτησε σε ρωσικό γυμνάσιο, στη Σταυρούπολη, όπου τη βρήκε η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση. Το 1919 γύρισε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και λίγο αργότερα πήγε στην Αλεξάνδρεια, όπου παντρεύτηκε τον Ιορδάνη Ιορδανίδη. Το 1923 επέστρεψαν μαζί στην Αθήνα, αλλά σύντομα ο Ιορδανίδης έφυγε.
Εξαιτίας των συνθηκών της ζωής της, η Ιορδανίδου απέκτησε μεγάλη γλωσσομάθεια και εργάστηκε ως ιδιωτική υπάλληλος. Έγινε γνωστή στο λογοτεχνικό χώρο με το έργο Λωξάντρα, που έγραψε σε ηλικία 65 χρονών, το 1962, και γνώρισε πολλές επανεκδόσεις. Η Λωξάντρα περιγράφει με μεγάλη ζωντάνια και χιούμορ τα έθιμα και τη ζωή των Ελλήνων της Πόλης και βασίζεται -
Μαρία Ιορδανίδου
Maria Iordanidou
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Γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1897 και έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στον Πειραιά και το Βατούμ της Ρωσίας. Φοίτησε σε ρωσικό γυμνάσιο, στη Σταυρούπολη, όπου τη βρήκε η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση. Το 1919 γύρισε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και λίγο αργότερα πήγε στην Αλεξάνδρεια, όπου παντρεύτηκε τον Ιορδάνη Ιορδανίδη. Το 1923 επέστρεψαν μαζί στην Αθήνα, αλλά σύντομα ο Ιορδανίδης έφυγε.
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Zoran Žmirić
Zoran Žmirić (Rijeka, March 10, 1969), member of the Croatian Writers' Society and a several times scholar at the Croatian Ministry of Culture.
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His works are translated into Slovenian, Ukrainian, Polish, Arabic and Italian.
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Award winner "Literary Feather" for the Book of the Year awarded by the Croatian Literary Society - Blockbuster (2010)
Winner of the City of Rijeka annual award for creative work and special achievements in culture (2011).
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Klíma's early childhood in Prague was happy and uneventful, but this all changed with the German invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1938, after the Munich Agreement. He had been unaware that both his parents had Jewish ancestry; neither were observant Jews, but this was immaterial to the Germans.
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Miljenko Jergović
Miljenko Jergović is a Bosnian prose writer. Jergović currently lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.
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Jergović has established himself as a writer in both Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, and his stories and novels have been translated into more than 20 languages. Critics have acclaimed his capability to turn every topic into a story without changing it at all, hence preserving its internal logic.
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Demick was correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer in Eastern Europe from 1993 to 1997. Along with photographer John Costello, she produced a series of articles that ran 1994-1996 following life on one Sarajevo street over the course of the war in Bosnia. The series won the George Polk Award for international reporting, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for international reporting and was a finalist for the Pulitzer in the features categor -
Wojciech Tochman
Reporter, non-fiction writer. He has twice been shortlisted for the NIKE Literary Prize and has won the Polish Book Publishers Association Award.
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He began his career as a reporter at the youth weekly Na przełaj before leaving school, and soon after he joined the first reporting team at "Gazeta Wyborcza". His reports from this period were published in a book, Stairs Don’t Burn (2000, 2006). Before he got his masters degree at Warsaw University he went to Bosnia with a convoy organised by humanitarian aid worker Janina Ochojska. He then went back to the Balkans repeatedly for many years, and the book Like Eating A Stone is the result of those journeys. His next book was Dear Daughter (2005), the moving account of his efforts to find out what h -
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Heda Margolius Kovály
Heda Margolius Kovály was a Czech writer and translator. She survived the Łódź ghetto and Auschwitz where her parents died. She later escaped whilst being marched to Bergen-Belsen to find that no one would take her in. Her husband was made a deputy minister in Czechoslovakia and he was then hanged as a traitor. As the wife of disgraced man she married again and she and her husband were treated badly. They left for the US in 1968 when the country was invaded by the Warsaw Pact countries. She published her biography in 1973. She and her husband did not return to her homeland until 1996.
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Jaka Tomc
When Jaka was three years old, sitting in his grandfather's lap, he wanted to do what his grandpa was doing. So, he learned to read. Starting with obituaries.
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Reading soon led to writing. At an early age, Jaka realized he was better at writing than talking. Even today, he doesn't like small talk. But his characters do, and they're pretty good at it. Jaka believes that this is one of life's ironies.
His favorite part of the year is summer, his favorite fruit is strawberries, and his favorite book is Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke. Probably because after four decades of living in his current body, he's still waiting for his childhood to end. He wouldn't mind if it never does.
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Heda Margolius Kovály
Heda Margolius Kovály was a Czech writer and translator. She survived the Łódź ghetto and Auschwitz where her parents died. She later escaped whilst being marched to Bergen-Belsen to find that no one would take her in. Her husband was made a deputy minister in Czechoslovakia and he was then hanged as a traitor. As the wife of disgraced man she married again and she and her husband were treated badly. They left for the US in 1968 when the country was invaded by the Warsaw Pact countries. She published her biography in 1973. She and her husband did not return to her homeland until 1996.
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Ivana Bodrožić
Ivana is a Croatian poet and writer.
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She studied philosophy and Croatian Language and Literature in Zagreb.
She was awarded for her poetry book Korak u tamu (Pace into the Darkness) with the Goran-award for young writers, as well as the Kvirin Award in 2005.
Her poems have been published in various newspapers, magazines and anthologies, and some of them have been translated into English, German and Polish.
Her first novel Hotel Zagorje is a coming-of-age-novel. It's a book about the girl's life as a refugee, sharing a few squremetres with her mother and her brother, all of them waiting for a message of the lost father.
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Marija Andrijašević
Marija Andrijašević (b. 1984, Split) is a Croatian writer. She holds an MA in Comparative Literature and Ethnology and Social Anthropology (2015) from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb.
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In 2007, she won the "Goran for Young Poets" award for her poetry collection davide, svašta su mi radili (david, they did things to me). Her debut novel, Zemlja bez sutona (The Land Without Twilight), was published in 2021. The novel won the "Tportal Literary Award" for the best novel in 2022 and the "Štefica Cvek" regional award as one of the nine best novels published in 2021 in the countries where BCSM languages are spoken.
In 2023, she published a poetry collection titled Temeljenje kuće (The Founding of a House). The collection won t -
Gabrijela Rukelj Krašković
Gabrijela Rukelj Kraskovic was born in 1980 in Zagreb, Croatia, where she lives and works. She is an artist, primarily a painter.
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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a political scientist, professor at New York University, and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He specializes in international relations, foreign policy, and nation building. He is also one of the authors of the selectorate theory.
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He has founded a company, Mesquita & Roundell, that specializes in making political and foreign-policy forecasts using a computer model based on game theory and rational choice theory. He is also the director of New York University's Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy.
He was featured as the primary subject in the documentary on the History Channel in December 2008. The show, titled Next Nostradamus, details how the scientist is using computer algorithms to predict fut -
Dragoslav Mihailović
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Samir Okasha
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I received my doctorate in 1998 from the University of Oxford, where I worked with Bill Newton-Smith. I then held a post-doctoral position at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), before moving to the London School of Economics as a Jacobsen Fellow. I was a Lecturer at the University of York from 2000-2002, and in 2003 moved to the University of Bristol. I was promoted to a personal chair in 2006.
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Kristian Novak
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He moved to Zagreb, to college in 1997.
He was standard member of the Croatian karate national team from 1996 to 2009, winning a range of individual and team awards at national and global championships.
In 2006. he was European Vice-Champion.
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Orison Swett Marden
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924) was an American writer associated with the New Thought Movement. He also held a degree in medicine, and was a successful hotel owner.
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Marden was born in Thornton Gore, New Hampshire to Lewis and Martha Marden. When he was three years old, his mother died at the age of 22, leaving Orison and his two sisters in the care of their father, a farmer, hunter, and trapper. When Orison was seven years old, his father died from injuries incurred while in the woods, and the children were shuttled from one guardian to another, with Orison working as a "hired boy" to earn his keep. Inspired by an early self-help book by the Scottish author Samuel Smiles, which he found in an attic, Marden set out to improve himself and his -
Eugenia Ginzburg
Eugenia Ginzburg (Russian: Евгения Гинзбург) was a Russian historian and writer. Soon after Eugenia Ginzburg was born into the family of a Jewish pharmacist in Moscow, her family moved to Kazan. In 1920 she entered the social sciences department of Kazan State University, later switching to pedagogy.
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She worked as a rabfak (worker's faculty) teacher, then as an assistant at the University. Shortly thereafter, she married Pavel Aksyonov, the mayor of Kazan and a member of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR. After becoming a Communist Party member, Ginzburg continued her successful career as educator, journalist and administrator. Her oldest son, Alexei Fedorov, from her first marriage to Doctor Fedorov, was born in 1926 and died in t -
Nathaniel Branden
Nathaniel Branden was a Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer known for his work in the psychology of self-esteem. A former associate and romantic partner of Ayn Rand, Branden also played a prominent role in the 1960s in promoting Rand's philosophy, Objectivism. Rand and Branden split acrimoniously in 1968, after which Branden focused on developing his own psychological theories and modes of therapy.
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Richard Paul
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Olja Knezevic
Olja Knezevic was born and raised in Montenegro, but has lived in California, Belgrade, London and Zagreb.
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She has an MA in Creative Writing from Birkbeck College, London, and was awarded an Overall Prize for the best MA Creative Writing dissertation of the year 2008. That dissertation grew into the novel ‘Milena & Other Social Reforms’, which ended up being published first in Montenegro, then in Croatia.
In both countries, it was a bestseller, although criticised harshly by the Government of Montenegro and the Government regime’s writers and reviewers. 'Milena' is now available in English.
Besides 'Milena & Other Social Reforms', Olja is the author of two more novels: 'Gospoda Black' (2015) and the award-winning 'Katarina, Velika i Mala' (2 -
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Nives Madunić Barišić
NIVES MADUNIĆ BARIŠIĆ rođena je 1968. godine u Osijeku koji još uvijek smatra svojim gradom premda živi i radi u Zagrebu. Školovala se na Filozofskom fakultetu i Akademiji dramskih umjetnosti u Zagrebu. Za djecu je napisala nekoliko igrokaza, poput „Mala zelena gusjenica“, „Naša je mama postala zmaj“, „Ispod zvončića se rodio kraljević“, „Luzer ili faca“, romane „Tajna čokoladnih bombona“, „Lunapark“ kao i romane serijala o Hani i Janku. Objavljuje priče u časopisima za djecu Prvi izbor i Radost. Objavila je nekoliko pripovjedaka, a jedna od njih uvrštena je i u antologiju „Svaka priča na svoj način”. Primila je i neke nagrade za svoj rad, ali za njih još ne mora imati posebnu policu. Mama je dvjema djevojčicama koje su njezin najveći uspje
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Lejla Kalamujić
Lejla Kalamujić, born in 1980 in Sarajevo, studied philosophy at the Faculty of Arts in Sarajevo. She writes prose, essays, and critiques that are published in magazines and web portals in Bosnia and Herzegovina and other countries of the Balkans. For her book of short stories Zovite me Esteban - Call Me Esteban - she received the Edo Budiša Prize 2015 and was shortlisted for the European Union Prize for Literature 2016.
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Almin Kaplan
Almin Kaplan (1985) bosanskohercegovački je pjesnik i prozaist. Pored knjiga poezije, objavio je četiri knjige proze: Trganje, Meho, Dubravske priče i Kućni ljudi. Dobitnik je nekoliko književnih nagrada među kojima i nagrada "Mak Dizdar", "Ratkovićeve večeri poezije", "Zija Dizdarević" i "Edo Budiša". Živi u Rivinama kod Stoca.
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Ivana Šojat
Rođena u Osijeku, gdje je završila gimnaziju (novinarsko usmjerenje) i dvije godine studija matematike i fizike na Pedagoškom fakultetu. Osam je godina živjela u Belgiji, gdje je završila studij francuskoga jezika. Godinu dana radi kao dopisnik Glasa Slavonije iz Bruxellesa. Već šest godina aktivno se bavi književnim prevođenjem. Suradnik brojnih književnih revija. Napisala zbirku poezije na francuskome jeziku Saint Espoir koja još nije objavljena, no čiji su dijelovi objavljeni u belgijskom književnom časopisu Le Fram. Književni i pjesnički krug iz Kraainema (Bruxelles) zbirku je proglasio najboljom od njima pristiglih rukopisa 1999. godine. Godinu dana pisala kolumnu u Magazinu osječkog Glasa Slavonije. Kolumne su kao eseji objavljene u k
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Marina Vujčić
Marina Vujčić rođena je 1966. u Trogiru. Na Filozofskom fakultetu u Zagrebu diplomirala je kroatistiku.
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U nakladi izdavačke kuće Profil 2010. godine objavljuje roman "Tuđi život", a 2014. u izdanju Hena coma knjigu drama "Umri ženski" i roman "A onda je Božo krenuo ispočetka" koji je 2015. godine ušao u uži izbor od četiri hrvatska naslova nominirana za Europsku nagradu za književnost.
Za dramu "Umri ženski" 2014. godine dobila je nagradu Marin Držić, a za dramu "Podmornica" istu nagradu 2017. godine.
2015. godine u izdanju Hena coma objavljuje roman "Mogla sam to biti ja".
Iste godine na natječaju V. B. Z.-a i Tisak medije romanom „Susjed“ osvaja nagradu za najbolji neobjavljeni roman 2015., koji objavljuje izdavačka kuća V. B. Z.
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Jurica Pavičić
Jurica Pavičić, pisac, kolumnista, scenarista, filmski kritičar. Diplomirao je komparativnu književnost i povijest na Filozofskom fakultetu u Zagrebu.
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Godine 1992. nagrađen je nacionalnom nagradom za filmsku kritiku „Vladimir Vuković“. Od 1994. piše u različitim novinama nedeljnu kolumnu Vijesti iz Liliputa, u kojoj secira društvo, politiku i kulturu ratne i posleratne Hrvatske. Za tekstove iz te serije 1996. dobija Nagradu nacionalnog novinarskog društva „Marija Jurić Zagorka“, 2002. Nagradu za doprinos novinarstvu „Veselko Tenžera“, a 2007. Nagradu „Miljenko Smoje“ Slobodne Dalmacije. Kolumna danas izlazi u Jutarnjem listu.
Kao književnik debitovao je 1997. socijalnim trilerom Ovce od gipsa, u kojem problematizuje tematiku ratnog zločina u -
Mark Thompson
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Mark Thompson is an award winning British historian. He has written three books including The White War (2008), an account of the travesties of the Italian army on the Austrian front during World War I, which discussed restoring the Roman practice of decimation, the random execution of troops in order to enforce the discipline of the remaining troops. Forging War (1999) is an account of the media manipulation that took place during the Bosnian War. A Paper House (1992) describes the dissolution of Yugoslavia. Thompson has also edited, with Louis Mackay, Something in the Wind: Politics after Chernobyl (1998).
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Patrik Ouředník
The writer, translator and essayist Patrik Ouředník was born in Prague on 23 April 1957. After finishing his basic education he worked as an assistant in a bookshop, an assistant archivist, warehouseman, postman, labourer and ambulance man. From 1974 to 1976 he studied acting and directing at a People’s Art School in Prague. In 1985 he emigrated to France. He translates from French into Czech (Rabelais, Jarry, Queneau, Beckett, Vian and others) and from Czech into French (including Vančura, Hrabal, Holan, Skácel and Holub).
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He is the author of twelve books, including fiction, essays, and poems. He has received a number of literary awards for his writing, including the Czech Literary Fund Award. -
Abbas Milani
Abbas Milani is the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University and a visiting professor in the department of political science. In addition, Dr. Milani is a research fellow and co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution. His expertise is U.S./Iran relations, Iranian cultural, political, and security issues.
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Goran Marković
Goran Marković is a Serbian film and theatre director and writer.
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Samira Bellil
Bellil was born to Algerian parents in Algiers, but her family migrated to France and settled in the Parisian suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis. Her father was jailed almost immediately and she was fostered by a family in Belgium for five years, before being called back to her parents .
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As a teenager Bellil rebelled against the traditional constraints of her community and wanted to live freely as a young French woman.
Samira was first gang-raped when she was 14, by a gang led by someone she knew. They beat her viciously and raped her all night. A month later, one of the most violent attackers in the gang followed her and dragged her off a train by her hair, while other passengers looked the other way. She was then brutally raped by him again.
She di -
John M. Merriman
John Mustard Merriman was Charles Seymour Professor of History at Yale University. He earned his B.A. (1968) and Ph.D. (1972) at the University of Michigan. Merriman received Yale University’s Harwood F. Byrnes/Richard B. Sewall Teaching Prize in 2000, and was awarded a Docteur Honoris Causa in France in 2002, and the “Medal of Meritorious Service to Polish Education” (Medal Kimisji Edukacji Narodowej) awarded by the Ministry of Education of Poland in 2009.
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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.
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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.
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Edward Samuel Behr
Edward Samuel Behr was a journalist; he worked primarily as a foreign & war correspondent. He began his career in the early 1950s with the Reuters news agency, then worked for Time-Life, serving as bureau chief in several cities around the world for Time Magazine. He then took a position with Newsweek in 1965 as Asia bureau chief, based in Hong Kong. Later in his career, Mr. Behr also made a number of documentaries for the BBC. He wrote several books during his life on various subjects, including a memoir which was published in 1978.
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Emmanuelle Pagano
Emmanuelle Pagano, alias Emmanuelle Salasc, née le 15 septembre 1969, dans l'Aveyron, est une écrivaine française.
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Emmanuelle Pagano was born in Aveyron in September 1969. She lives today in Ardèche, with three children, born in April 1991, September 1995 and May 2003. She graduated in Fine Arts, and has done university researches in the field of esthetics in the cinema as well as the multimedia. -
Ivan Slamnig
Ivan Slamnig was a Croatian poet, novelist, literary theorist and translator.
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Slamnig was born in Metković. He graduated from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in 1955 and later taught at its Department of Comparative Literature.
Slamnig is considered one of the most important Croatian poets of the 20th century. His laconic, humor-infused modernist poetry is difficult to categorize, and proved popular with the critics and the public alike. His poem "Barbara", set to music by Zvonko Špišić, was a hit in 1975.
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Đorđe Matić
See also Djordje Matić
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Đorđe Matić, pjesnik, pripovjedač, esejist i kritičar, rođen je 1970. u Zagrebu, gdje je i odrastao. Od 1991. živio je najprije u Italiji, a zatim u Nizozemskoj, gdje je u Amsterdamu studirao englesku i talijansku književnost. Objavio je pjesničke zbirke Lingua franca, Haarlem Nocturne (na nizozemskom jeziku) i Drugi zvuk, zatim knjige eseja o glazbi Tajni život pjesama – hrvatska popularna muzika devedesetih i Tajne veze; zbirke ogleda i eseja Historija i savremenici, Senke naših predaka: otrgnuto od zaborava, te Visages du silence – Lica tišine (na francuskom). U rujnu 2021. godine objavio je roman Niotkuda s ljubavlju (Naklada Ljevak). Član je Hrvatskog društva pisaca. Živi u Poreču. -
Matei Călinescu
Matei Călinescu was a Romanian literary critic and professor of comparative literature at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana.
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He attended the Ion Luca Caragiale High School in Bucharest, taking his diploma in 1952. He emigrated from Romania to the United States in 1973. Emeritus Professor at Indiana University. He lived with his wife in Bloomington, Indiana. -
Kallia Papadaki
Η Κάλλια Παπαδάκη γεννήθηκε το 1978. Σπούδασε οικονομικά στις ΗΠΑ, στο Bard College και το Πανεπιστήμιο Brandeis. Το πρώτο της βιβλίο, η συλλογή διηγημάτων "Ο ήχος του ακάλυπτου" (εκδόσεις Πόλις) διακρίθηκε με το βραβείο πρωτοεμφανιζόμενου συγγραφέα του περιοδικού "Διαβάζω", το 2010. Έχει συμμετάσχει σε συλλογές διηγήματων και ποιήματά της έχουν δημοσιευτεί στα περιοδικα "Νέα Εστία" και "Ποιητική". Ασχολείται επαγγελματικά με τη συγγραφή σεναρίων για ταινίες μεγάλου μήκους. Το πρώτο της σενάριο ήταν για την ταινία της Πέννυς Παναγιωτοπούλου "September". Το μυθιστόρημά της "Δενδρίτες" (2015), που εκδόθηκε στο πλαίσιο του ελληνογαλλικού προγράμματος ενίσχυσης συγγραφέων, μεταφραστών και εκδοτών του ελληνικού και του γαλλικού Εθνικού Κέντρου Β
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Snežana M. Veljković
Snežana Veljković je rođena u Nišu, živela i školovala se u Beogradu. Diplomirala je na Medicinskom fakultetu u Beogradu i odmah po diplomiranju počela da radi na Institutu za sudsku medicinu Medicinskog fakulteta.Specijalizirala je sudsku medicinu i ubrzo uzela učešća u nastavi kao stručni saradnik, a potom asistent, pa docent.Nastavnu godinu 1979/80. provela je na stručnom usavršavanju u Office of Chief Medical Examiner, The City of New York, USA. Doktorsku disertaciju odbranila je 1980. Za redovnog profesora Medicinskog fakulteta izabrana je 1994.Ceo radni vek posvetila je nastavi i naučnoistraživačkom radu iz oblasti sudske medicine. Posebno je izučavala probleme naprasne prirodne smrti, nasilne asfiktične smrti, iznenadne smrti novorođ
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Andrija Maurović
Andrija Maurović was a renowned comic book author, often called the father of Croatian and Yugoslav comics. He is mostly known for his "Stari Mačak" series, published during the 30s and being so populat that the main fictional comics hero's name eventually became a nickname for the author himself.
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Renata Salecl
Renata Salecl, a philosopher and sociologist, is professor at the School of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London and senior researcher at the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her books include The Tyranny of Choice and On Anxiety.
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Bekim Fehmiu
Bekim Fehmiu was a Yugoslavian theater and film actor of Albanian ethnicity. He was the first Eastern European actor to star in Hollywood during the Cold War.
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Fehmiu was born in Sarajevo, Kingdom of Yugoslavia to Albanian parents. His family descends from merchant family of Imer Halili from the town of Gjakova in Kosovo; his father Ibrahim took his high-school nickname Fehmiu as a surname. In 1941, his family permanently moved to Prizren in Kosovo, where Bekim spent his childhood. He was part of the acting club at his high school in Prizren, and after graduation he became a member of County popular theatre in Pristina, the only professional Albanian language theatre in Yugoslavia. He graduated from the Faculty of Drama Arts (FDU) in Belgrade -
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Irena Vrkljan
Hrvatska pjesnikinja, prozaistica, radiodramatičarka, esejistica, prevoditeljica, poznata i kao "hrvatska Virginia Woolf". Djeluje na hrvatskoj književnoj sceni već više od pedeset godina.
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Studirala je na Filozofskom fakultetu u Zagrebu (arheologiju, etnologiju i germanistiku) i na Filmskoj akademiji u Berlinu. Od 1960. do 1971. radila je na televiziji kao urednica emisije Portreti i susreti. Okušala se u različitim književnim žanrovima objavivši više od dvadeset knjiga: pjesničkih zbirki, romana, autobiografske proze i eseja. Piše i scenarije za televizijske i radijske drame. Knjige su joj prevedene na više stranih jezika. Dobitnica je književnih nagrada “Ksaver Šandor Gjalski” za knjigu Svila, škare, “Ivan Goran Kovačić” za roman Marina il