Pavao Pavličić

Pavao Pavličić ( born August 16, 1946 in Vukovar ) is a Croatian writer, author, essayist, author, scriptwriter, translator, literary theorist and university professor. For a wider circle of readers, he is famous for his crime novels. He writes for both adults and children.

Life

Pavao Pavličić was born on July 16, 1946 in Vukovar. There he attended elementary school and high school. From 1965 to 1969 he studied comparative literature and Italian language and literature at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. Since 1970 he works in the Department of Comparative Literature Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. He led the College " Comparative History of Croatian Literature" as well as " literary theory and metric ". Pavličić is the author of several studies and books of literary theory and the older Croatian literature. He participated in scientific meetings in Italy, Germany, France and Hungary.

He is one of the most prolific writers of his generation and author of several short stories and novels. As a scriptwriter, he worked mainly with Zoran Tadić. The film directed by Tadić, " Ritam zločina " (1981) was awarded a prize for the scenario when Fanta Porto Film Festival in Porto. Pavličićs book " Stroj za maglu " was taken as the basis for this film. They also worked on the following films: " Treci Ključ " (1983), " San o ruzi " (1986), " Osuđeni " (1987), " Orao " (1990), " treca Žena " (1997). In collaboration with Branko Ivanda and Ivan Kušan he wrote the scenario for the film directed by Ivanda, " Zločin u Skoli " (1982). Pavličić also worked with Branko Schmidt, and indeed in the film " Vukovar se vraca kući " (1994). Together with Prior Žmegač he wrote the scenario for the film " Putovanje tamnom polutkom " (1995). He is also the scriptwriter of several TV films and dramas.

Literary and scientific works

As a scientist, to Pavličić interested in the older Croatian literature and literary theory. He has published several discourses and some books, as well as lyrical prose. Some of these are:

In addition Pavličić wrote the following feature articles: Zagrebački odrezak (1985 ), Inventura (1989 ), Prolazna soba (1992 ), leksikon uzaludnih znanja (1995), Zagrebački trgovi (1998), and Essays: Sve sto znam o krimiću (1990 ), Svoj svome (1992), Rukoljub (1995), Ulica me odgojila (2004).

Novels

His writing career began as a writer of short stories. He has published seven collections of short stories: ladja od vode (1972 ), Vilinski vatrogasci (1975 ), Dobri duh Zagreba (1976 ), Radovi na krovu (1984 ), Scandal na simpoziju (1985 ), Kako preživjeti mladost (1997), Otrovni papir (2001 ) and more than 20 novels. Some of these are:

Literary and scientific interests are made ​​equal with him and devour one another. This can be "read" in his novels. Almost all of his main characters are in some respects in relation to his work. How to do for example in the novel Koraljna vrata a philologist to Lastovo to investigate the ancient writings. There he finds two lost songs from " Osman " by Ivan Gundulić. In the novel, Rupa na nebu the main character is a translator. In numerus clausus, there are two main characters: a literature student as narrator and his friend, a medical student.

He also wrote several children's novels:

Movies

He is a scenarist following movies: