Zoran Ferić
Zoran Ferić is the author of three novels and two collections of short stories.
He is among the most widely read contemporary Croatian prose writers.
His work has received numerous prizes, including the Ksaver Šandor Gjalski Prize in 2000 and the Jutarnji List Award for the Best work of prose fiction in 2001.
He lives in Zagreb.
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Vitomil Zupan
Vitomil Zupan, who also wrote under the pseudonym Langus, was a Slovenian writer, poet, playwright, essayist and screenwriter. He is considered one of the most important authors in the Slovene language of the second half of the 20th century.
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Đurđica Orepić
Đurđica Orepić rođena je na otoku Rabu 30. svibnja 1964. Živi u Poreču i radi kao privatna poduzetnica od 1988. Majka je troje djece, kćeri Maksin i Petre te sina Damjana, i baka dviju unučica, Kim Amber i Kai Olivije. Nikada se nije aktivno bavila sportom do svoje 47. godine, kada je počela trčati iz oklade. Nakon prvog maratona u dvije godine istrčala je deset maratona i sedamnaest polumaratona po cijelom svijetu. Triatlon je počela trenirati 2014. i u ovih deset godina popela se na postolje najboljih diljem planeta. O njoj je 2016. snimljen dokumentarni film Ironwoman u produkciji HRT-a. Godinu 2021. završila je kao najbolje rangirana natjecateljica na svijetu u svojoj dobnoj kategoriji 55 – 59 (AWA – All World Rankings Ironman), u konku
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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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Alan Sullivan
Edward Alan Sullivan was a Canadian poet and author of short stories.
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Born in St. George's Rectory, Montreal, he was the oldest son of Edward Sullivan and Frances Mary Renaud. In 1869, his father became rector of Trinity Church, Chicago. The family lived to the city in 1871, and thus witnessed the Great Chicago Fire. When he was 15, he began attending Loretto in Musselburgh, Scotland, a famous school for boys. On his return to Canada, he attended the School of Practical Science, Toronto. After this he did railway exploration work in the West, and later worked in mining. He was assistant engineer in the Clergue enterprises at Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario for a year and a half, before the organization of the Consolidated Lake Superior Company. Su -
Ivo Andrić
Ivo Andrić (Serbian Cyrillic: Иво Андрић; born Ivan Andrić) was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule.
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Born in Travnik in Austria-Hungary, modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, Andrić attended high school in Sarajevo, where he became an active member of several South Slav national youth organizations. Following the assassination of Archduke of Austria Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Andrić was arrested and imprisoned by the Austro-Hungarian police, who suspected his involvement in the plot. As the authorities were unable to build a strong case against him, he spent much of the war under house arrest, only being r -
Semezdin Mehmedinović
Semezdin Mehmedinović is a well known Bosnian writer, filmmaker, and magazine editor. His book "Sarajevo Blues" was praised by Washington Post as one of the best books which document war in Bosnia.
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Georgi Gospodinov
Georgi Gospodinov is a writer, poet and playwright based in Sofia, Bulgaria. He studied Bulgarian Philology at Sofia University. Later he defended a PhD on New Bulgarian literature with the Bulgaria Academy of Science's Institute for Literature. He is one of the most translated Bulgarian authors after 1989. He published the first Bulgarian graphic novel The Eternal Fly (Вечната муха).
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Robert Perišić
Robert Perišić (born. 1969) is a prominent Croatian poet, writer and journalist. He took his BA in Croatian language and literature at Philosophical Faculty in Zagreb. His criticism and essays were published in Feral Tribune and Playboy magazines. Perišić lives in Zagreb and works as a freelance writer.
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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.
His more acclaimed works include his debut Opservatorija Varšava (Warsaw Observatory, 1988); Hauzmajstor Šulc (Schultz the Repairman, 2000), both collections of poetry; a collection of short stories Sarajevski marlboro (Sarajevo Marlboro, 1994); the novels Mama Leone and Dvori od oraha ("The Mansion in Walnut," 2003; and the drama Kažeš, anđeo (You -
Ante Tomić
Ante Tomić is Croatian writer and journalist.
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A native of Split, Ante Tomić begin to write as a reporter for local daily newspaper Slobodna Dalmacija. His articles showed great literary talent that would manifest in his 2000 debut novel Što je muškarac bez brkova. Three years later he wrote novel Ništa nas ne smije iznenaditi, describing the life of recruits in Yugoslav People's Army. Both novels are adapted to screen.
Ante Tomić now writes for Jutarnji list. In 2004 he travelled across USA in order to cover presidential campaign by talking to "ordinary" people. -
Milena Marković
Milena Marković rođena je 1974. godine u Zemunu. Diplomirala je dramaturgiju na Fakultetu dramskih umetnosti. Njene drame: "Šine", "Paviljoni", "Brod za lutke", "Beli beli svet", "Šuma blista", "Nahod Simeon" i druge, izvođene su u Srbiji i inostranstvu. Dobitnica je specijalne nagrade u Beču za najbolje drame sa ex-Yu prostora, specijalne nagrade Sterijinog pozorja, nagrade "Borislav Mihajlović-Mihiz", kao i nagrade “Miloš Crnjanski” za knjigu “Tri drame”. Po njenom scenariju Oleg Novković snimio je film "Sutra ujutru" i dokumentarni film "Rudarska opera". Objavila je i tri zbirke poezije: "Pas koji je pojo sunce" (2001), "Istina ima teranje" (2003) i "Crna kašika" (2006). "Ptičje oko na tarabi", "Pre nego što sve počne da se vrti"...
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Karl Ove Knausgård
Nominated to the 2004 Nordic Council’s Literature Prize & awarded the 2004 Norwegian Critics’ Prize.
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Karl Ove Knausgård (b. 1968) made his literary debut in 1998 with the widely acclaimed novel Out of the World, which was a great critical and commercial success and won him, as the first debut novel ever, The Norwegian Critics' Prize. He then went on to write six autobiographical novels, titled My Struggle (Min Kamp), which have become a publication phenomenon in his native Norway as well as the world over. -
Bekim Sejranović
Bekim Sejranović rođen je 1972. u Brčkom, BiH. U Rijeci, gdje živi od 1985. godine, studirao je kroatistiku na Pedagoškom fakultetu. Od 1993. živi u Oslu i magistrirao je 1999. godine na tamošnjem Povijesno-filozofskom fakultetu. Prozu je objavljivao u Rivalu, Quorumu, Sarajevskim sveskama, Politikinom Zabavniku i još ponegde. Preveo je knjigu priča „Noć prije mračnog jutra“ norveškog autora Ingvara Ambjørnsena (2000), priredio i preveo antologiju norveške kratke priče „Veliki pusti krajolik“ (2001) i preveo nekoliko dela norveškog autora Frode Gryttena i Josteina Gaardera. Objavio je studiju „Modernizam u romanu Isušena kaljuža Janka Polića Kamova“ (2001). Objavio romane: „Nigdje, niotkuda“ i „Ljepši kraj“. Za roman „Nigdje, niotkuda“ dobi
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Želimir Periš
Rođen 1975.
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Piše .
Objavio je:
Mučenice, Algoritam, 2013. (prijevod na slovenski i bugarski, adaptirano u dvije kazališne predstave)
Mima i kvadratura duga, Algoritam/24 sata, 2014. (finale tportala za roman godine)
Mima i vaše kćeri, 24 sata, 2015.
x, Algoritam, 2016.
Mladenka kostonoga, oceanmore, 2020. (nagrade: tportal za najbolji hrvatski roman godine, Kočićevo pero)
Straška postavlja teška pitanja, Fierce Women, 2020.
Straška izvrće neistine, Fierce Women, 2021.
Gracija od čempresa, oceanmore, 2023.
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Lana Bastašić
Lana Bastašić rođena je u Zagrebu, tadašnjoj SFRJ, 1986. godine. Završila je studije anglistike i komunikologije u Banjoj Luci, i odbranila master rad iz Studija kulture na FPN u Beogradu. Objavila je dvije zbirke kratkih priča: Trajni pigmenti (SKC Kragujevac, 2010, konkurs edicije Prvenac) i Vatrometi (Čekić, Beograd, 2011). Samostalno je objavila knjigu priča za djecu, Nastja crta sunce (Banja Luka, 2015, ilustracije Sandre Dukić). Godine 2014. osvojila je prvu nagradu za neobjavljenu zbirku poezije na Danima poezije u Zaječaru i objavila Naivni triptih o Bosni i umiranju. Njen prvi roman, Uhvati zeca (Kontrast, Beograd 2018), dobitnik je Evropske nagrade za književnost 2020. godine. Roman je bio uvršten u najuži izbor za NIN-ovu nagradu
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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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Kristian Novak
Kristian Novak is a Croatian writer, linguist and university professor. He was born into a family of Croatian migrant workers in Germany, but spent his childhood and youth in a small village in Međimurje, the most northern part of Croatia.
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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.
His first novel, Obješeni (The Hanged) was published in 2005, but received no significant reception.
Dark Mother Earth (2013), his second novel, won The Tportal prize for Croatian novel of the year and is hailed as one of the best Croatian novels in the last 50 years. T -
Đorđe Lebović
Rođen je u Somboru 1928. godine. Kao petnaestogodišnjak, zbog svog jevrejskog porekla, biva interniran u zloglasne nemačke koncentracione logore Aušvic, Mauthauzen i Saksenhauzen. Gorka iskustva stečena u ratu ostaviće kasnije dubok trag u njegovom delu. Nakon rata, 1947. godine započinje studije na Tehničkom fakultetu u Beogradu, odakle 1948. prelazi na Odsek za filozofiju Filološkog fakulteta gde diplomira 1951. godine. Već tokom studija radi kao novinar na Radio Beogradu i u humorističkom listu „Jež“, a nakon studija postavljen je na funkciju kustosa u Muzeju pozorišne umetnosti u Beogradu koju obavlja tokom 1954—1955. godine, ostavljajući pritom najobimniji rukopis, pisan rukom, „Prva inventarska knjiga Muzeja pozorišne umetnosti u Beog
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Magdalena Blažević
Magdalena Blažević rođena je u Žepču, u Bosni i Hercegovini, 1982. godine.
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Objavila je zbirku kratkih priča "Svetkovina" (Fraktura i Kontrast, 2020.) koje su uvrštene u antologiju "Take six: Six Female Balkan Writers" (Dedalus, 2023.), pojedinačne priče prevedene su na engleski, makedonski, ukrajinski, rumunjski i njemački i ruski jezik.
Prvi roman "U kasno ljeto" objavljen je 2022. godine u izdanju Frakture, beogradske Booke i sarajevskog Buybooka te je preveden na engleski, francuski, katalonski, talijanski, makedonski i slovenački, a uskoro izlazi i na grčkom. Objavljen je i kao radio drama u sklopu dramskog programa Hrvatskog radija, a 2023. osvojio je nagradu tportala za najbolji hrvatski roman te Kočićevo pero.
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Mirjana Drljević
Mirjana Drljević, rođena 1971. u Beogradu, autorka je drame San o Svetom Petru Cetinjskom igrane u Crnogorskom narodnom pozorištu i javno čitane u Narodnom pozorištu u Beogradu, kao i drame Suncokreti izvođene u Narodnom pozorištu „Sterija“ u Vršcu.
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Niko nije zaboravljen i ničega se ne sećamo njen je debitantski roman.
Čita, piše, živi i radi u Beogradu. -
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 -
Igor Mandić
Igor Mandić was a Croatian writer, literary critic, columnist and essayist. According to Croatian historian Slobodan Prosperov Novak, Mandić was the most important and the most versatile Croatian newspaper writer of the second half of the 20th century. His polemic texts have marked a Yugoslav publicist epoch of the 1960s and 1970s.
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Poznati novinar, pisac, antologičar, kritičar, esejista i publicista Igor Mandić obiležio je hrvatsko novinarstvo druge polovine dvadesetog veka. Bio je dugogodišnji saradnik mnogih televizijskih i radio stanica, objavljivao sociokulturne feljtone, eseje, polemike i književnu kritiku.
Dobitnik je Nagrade za životno djelo Hrvatskog novinarskog društva 2005. Rođen je u Šibeniku 20. novembra 1939. godine. Završi -
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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Renato Baretić
Renato Baretić was a Croatian journalist, writer, screenwriter and actor.
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Mirko Bogović
Mirko Bogović (Varaždin, 1816 - Zagreb, 1893) was a Croatian poet, playwright and politician.
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Sven Popović
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Sven Popović rođen je 1989. u Zagrebu, tadašnjoj Jugoslaviji. Diplomirao komparativnu književnost te Engleski jezik i književnost i amerikanistiku na zagrebačkom Filozofskom fakultetu. Piše glazbene i književne kritike za zato specijalizirane časopise i portale. Prozu objavljuje u Quorumu, Zarezu, Fantomu slobode, časopisu Nova riječ, časopisu Script, zborniku „Record Stories“ (Aquarius Records), antologiji mladih prozaika „Bez vrata, bez kucanja“ (Sandrof) te raznim internetskim portalima. Književni prvijenac „Nebo u kaljuži“ (Meandarmedia) objavljuje 2015. Jedan je od osnivača „TKO ČITA?“, programa namijenjenog mladim autorima. Također je jedan od urednika zbornika „TKO ČITA?“ za sezone 2015./16 i 2016./17. Priče su mu uvrštene -
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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Željko Malnar
Zeljko Malnar is documentarist, TV author and writer. Educated at New Delhi University in mass communications, he made more than 100 documentary films about far east for which he has won some awards. Co-author of the book "U potrazi za staklenim gradom" (In search for glass city). Author of TV series "Nightmare stage (OTV, 1992-1995) and series of interviews in Globus magazine. He even founded satirical micronation the Republic of Peščenica.
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Željko Malnar died at age 69 in Zagreb. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered in the Adriatic Sea. -
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Ksaver Šandor Gjalski
Ksaver Šandor Gjalski, or Ljubomil Tito Babić (26 October 1854 – 6 February 1935) was a Croatian writer and civil servant.
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His real name was Ljubomil Babić and he was born in the Gredice castle near Klanjec and Zabok in Hrvatsko Zagorje, into a minor aristocratic family. He finished high school in Varaždin and earned law degrees in Zagreb and Vienna. He was also involved in politics. In 1906 he got elected into the Croatian Parliament. 1917 through 1918 he held the post of mayor of the Zagreb county.
He wrote novels, but his best known work is Pod starim krovovima (Under Old Roofs), a collection of short stories in which he described the economic decline of the Croatian aristocracy. Gjalski managed to combine realism and poetry in his work be -
Asja Bakić
Asja Bakić is a Bosnian poet, writer and translator. She was born in Tuzla, where she obtained a degree in Bosnian language and literature. She has published a book of poetry, Može i kaktus, samo neka bode (It Can Be a Cactus, as Long as it Pricks, 2009), which was nominated for the Kiklop Award for best debut. Her second book, a collection of short stories entitled Mars (2015), was shortlisted for the Edo Budiša Award for young writers. Her poems and stories have been translated into English, Polish, Czech, Macedonian, Slovenian, Romanian and Swedish. She writes the blog In the Realm of Melancholy and is co-editor of the feminist webzine Muff. Bakić participates in the European poetry platform Versopolis. She has translated Emily Dickinson
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