Academy Members

Katunarić Dražen, F.C.A.

Academic titles:

• Fellow of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Membership in Academy:

• full member – Department of Literature (5/16/2024 – …)

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Curriculum Vitae

 

Date of Birth 25 December 1954

Education

1969–1971 Grammar School, Zagreb – Baccalauréat

1977 M. A. in Philosophy, University of Human Sciences, Strasbourg

1978 Master’s thesis on Dostoievsky and the Philosophy of the Underground (thesis mentored by Jean-Luc Nancy)

Work History

1981 Editor at the Mladost Publishing House

1991–1993 Editor of the literary journal Lettre internationale” – Croatian Edition since 1993

1996 Editor-in-Chief of the literary journals The Bridge and The European Messenger

Publications to date

Has been publishing poems, essays, travelogues, prose, articles, plays in Croatian and foreign reviews since 1980.

Translations into French, English, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Corsican, Slovenian, Romanian, Macedonian, Albanian, German.

Published books

Bacchus in marble (poems), Zagreb 1983

Sand Trap (poems), Zagreb 1985

Imposture (poems), Zagreb 1987

At Sea (poems), Zagreb 1988

Psalms (poems), Zagreb 1990

The Abrupt Voice (poems), Zagreb 1991

The House of Decadence (essays), Zagreb 1992

Sky/Earth (poems), Zagreb 1993

Church, Street, Zoo (prose) Zagreb 1994

The Return of the Barbarogenius (essays), Zagreb 1995

The Poem of Stjepan (poems), Zagreb 1996

Diocletian’s Palace (essays), Zagreb-Split 1997

The Story of the Cave (essays-prose), Zagreb 1998

Glue for Nightingale (poems), Zagreb 1998

The Read Heart (selected poems), Zagreb 1999

Parabola (poems), Zagreb 2001

Fatal Image (novel), Zagreb 2002

Tiger’s Balzam (stories), Zagreb 2005

Lyre/Delirium (poems), Zagreb 2006

The beggar woman (novel), Zagreb 2009

Infernet and others texts (essay), Zagreb 2010

Chronos (poems), 2011

One Day it was Night (poems), 2015

The Smile of Padre Pio (novel), 2017

Sign in a shadow (poems), 2017

Desert Farewell (novel), Zagreb 2021

What Zeus whispered to me? (poems), 2023

Published books abroad

Ecclesia invisibilis (selected poems), Academia Orient, Occident, Bucharest 2001

Isolomania (selected poems), Albiana, Ajaccio, France 2004

Cherries (selected poems), Blue Aster Press, N.Y. 2004

Kthimi i barbrogjenive (essay), Ditet e Naimit, Tetove 2007

Ciel/Terre (poems), L’Arbre à paroles, Amay 2008

Le baume du tigre (tales), Mode Est-Ouest, Bruxelles 2009

Die Bettlerin (novel), Leykam, Graz 2009

La mendiante (novel), Mode Est-Ouest, Bruxelles, 2012

Cer/Pamint (poems), CronEdit, Iasy, 2016

Poem Efemer (poems), Trovant, Iasy 2016

La maison du déclin (essay), Mode Est-Ouest, Bruxelles 2017

Cronos (poems), Krivodol Press, Buenos Aires 2017

Balsam de tigru, Cronedit, Iasi 2022

Je reste longtemps dans la mer, L’Ollave, Lyon 2023

Una día era de noche, Poesía Selecta, Katelani 2000 Poiesis Forum, Barcelona 2024 (in print)

Awards

1984 Branko Radičević Award for the best poetry book in Yugoslavia

1994 Tin Ujević Award of the Croatian Writers’ Association for the best poetry book in 1993

1996 Order of the Croatian Star with the Effigy of Marko Marulić “for special contributions to culture”

1999 Award of Matrix Croatica for Literature for the best collection of poetry in 1998

1999 European Circle Award for Literature

1999 Order of the Knight of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture

2002 Macedonian Prize Menada “for the specific value of poetry”

2009 Austrian Steiermaerkische Sparkasse Award for the novel The beggar woman (Die Bettlerin)

2015 Balcanica Award of the Romanian Literary Society for Poetry

2018 Dragutin Tadijanović Poetry Award of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts

2023 Finalist of the prestigious French Poetry Award Mallarmé

2023 Olive Wreath Poetry Award as part of the event Ča, kaj, što, Selca on the Island of Brač