Neven Vulić-works/transl

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The History of Illness (Povijest bolesti, SysPrint, 2010), novel
A Tender Creature (Nježna stvorenja, Fraktura, 2020), novel


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Marinko Krmpotić, Novi list

The author created his undoubtedly excellent drama about the modern man through the portrayal of characters he deliberately does not name. (…) A Tender Creature is a novel on modern society and the enormous callousness it created on its way to digitalize everything and everyone. Life “at a distance”, life with screens, and the obvious lack of real verbal and personal communication creates emotional cripples who are unable to see, recognize and understand their own feelings, let alone feelings of others.

Marina Šur Puhlovski-works/transl

MAIN WORKS

The Trojan Mare (Trojanska kobila, Mladost, 1991; Stajergraf, 2006), novel 
A Rabbit in the Attic (Zec na tavanu, Meandar, 1996), short stories
A Secret Life (Tajni život, Area, 1998), short stories
Trapped Knowledge (Zatočeno znanje, Stajergraf, 1999), poems in prose
A Good-for-Nothing Man (Ništarija, Stajergraf, 1999), novel
Under the Table (Ispod stola, AGM, 2001), short stories
Writings from the Knee (Zapisi s koljena, Mozaik knjiga, 2002) travel prose
Sea Bream (Orada, POP&POP, 2002), short stories
Insomnia (Nesanica, Profil, 2007), novel
Love (Ljubav, Ljevak, 2010), novel
Player (Igrač,  V.B.Z., 2017), novel 
A Wild Woman (Divljakuša, V.B.Z., 2018), novel
The Third Life of a Second Violin (Treći život druge violine, V.B.Z., 2018), short stories
Goodbye, Girl (Zbogom djevojčice, V.B.Z., 2020), novel
Virus, earthquake, marriage (Virus, potres, brak, V.B.Z., 2022), novel


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Wild Woman: Hrvatska (V.B.Z.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Branimir Pofuk, Večernji list

 A Tender Creature is built like a house. Father, old and alone, on the ground floor. Self-isolated. An apartment on the top floor, a place where he snooped around in the first scene looking for the long-lost intimacy and company of those living there: son, daughter-in-law, granddaughter. In between, on the first floor, like in limbo, tenant. (…) Quite unexpectedly and not by a chance, because real art happens for a reason, we got a novel just for these days and this time of illness in which we became at least a little more aware of our fragility and transience, but also our unique abilities for intimacy, our tenderness – qualities and skills worth practicing in this self-isolation so that we know how to provide it when we get out of it. Until it's too late.

Croatia at Frankfurt Book Fair 2014


This year at Frankfurt Book Fair Croatia will present its history of performance art.

Featuring 149 interviews, critical essays, and 1,860 photographs that span 2,096 beautifully designed pages The Chronotope of Croatian Performance Art is a formidable and astounding testament to artists whose art clashed with all ideologies.

The Chronotope of Croatian Performance Art covers the history of Croatian performance art from two perspectives: the early 1920s avant-garde manifested in radical street actions and the conceptual approach of the 1960s and ‘70s initiated by Tomislav Gotovac, Sanja Iveković, and Vlasta Delimar.

The social and political changes that structure the book’s chronological narrative, from The Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918-1939) to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1945-1991) and the Republic of Croatia (1991- ) entering the European Union in 2013, created unique contexts for the development of performance arts and their theme repertoire in the respective regions – Zagreb, Split, Dubrovnik, Pula, Labin, Rijeka, Osijek, Varaždin – from upending the norms of the aristocratic class, rebellion against communist regime oppression, women’s rights, sexual liberation, and, finally, activism and a harsh critique of neo-liberal consumerist society.
Each of the fifteen chapters begins with theoretical background followed by interviews with individual performance artists as well as actors, musicians, theoreticians, and art historians. Featuring 149 interviews and 1,860 photographs that span 2,096 beautifully designed pages this book is a formidable and astounding testament to artists whose art clashed with all ideologies.

Program:
Thursday, October 9th, 2014 at 5 pm: Happy Hour around the Croatian literature - Wine, Croatian ham and cheese - not only during vacation but at the Book Fair, too, together with agents, publishers, authors and translators. We look forward to meeting you! (Croatian stand H5.1 C104)
Friday, October 10th, 2014 at 3 pm: Chronotope of the Croatian Performance. An extensive work in 3 volumes about (subversive) practice of art in the socialis and post-socialist era. Siniša Labrović – a performance artist – will present his work in a discussion with the author of plays and prose Vladimir Stojsavljević. Presentation: Alida Bremer. (Croatian stand H5.1 C104)
Sunday, October 12th, 2014 at 10.30 am (Stage of "Weltempfang", Hall 5.0): Artistic interventions in urban spaces: „Chronotope of the Croatian Performance“. How radical, how up-to-date, meaningful have been artists in Croatia and in Yugoslavia – in a region which tried to find a way between the Eastern and the Western approach, which finally ended in the wars of the nineties. And what is going on today? With Suzana Marjanić, Višnja Rogošić, Boris Buden, Siniša Labrović. Presentation: Alida Bremer. Organizers: Croatian Ministry of Culture and TRADUKI

 

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