Julijana Matanović is a Croatia

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n short story

Short story

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 writer and novelist. She is also a professor at the University of Zagreb

University of Zagreb

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, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb

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, where she teaches contemporary Croatian literature.

She was born in Gradačac

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, went to primary school in Đurđenovac and then on to high school in Našice

Našice

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, before enrolling at University of Osijek

University of Osijek

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 where she earned a degree in Yugoslav languages and literature in 1982. In 1998 she earned her doctorate at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb

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 with a thesis called Povijesni roman u hrvatskoj književnosti XX. stoljeća (The historical novel

Historical novel

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 in 20th-century Croatian literature

Croatian literature

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).

Her works have been translated into German, Serbian and Slovenian.

Selected works

• Zašto sam vam lagala (1997)
• Bilješka o piscu (2000)
• Lijepi običaji (2000)
• Kao da smo otac i kći (2003)
• Krsto i Lucijan (2003)
• Laura nije samo anegdota (2005)
• Tko se boji lika još (2008)
• Knjiga od žena, muškaraca, gradova i rastanaka (2009)