Ante Tomić (born April 22, 1970) is a Croatian left wing

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A native of the village

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near

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, Tomić graduated with a joint honours degree in

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from the

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. He began to write as a reporter for the local daily newspaper ''

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'', showing in his articles great literary talent that would manifest itself in his 2000

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''Što je muškarac bez brkova''. Three years later he wrote the novel entitled which described the life of recruits in the

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. Both novels were adapted for the screen. Tomić co-authored the script for the 1999 film '' Posljednja volja'', as well as that of the 2002 mini-series ''Novo doba''. Ante Tomić now writes for the newspaper '' Jutarnji list'' and in 2004 he travelled across the US to provide his newspaper's coverage of the

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by talking to the American electorate on the street. As of 2009, he has his own column ''Vlaška posla'' in ''

''. In 2017, Ante Tomić has signed the

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of the

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and

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Works

* ''Zaboravio sam gdje sam parkirao'', collection of stories, 1997. * ''Što je muškarac bez brkova'', novel, 2000. * ''Smotra folklora'', 2001. * , novel, 2003. * ''Veliki šoping'', collection of stories, 2004. * ''Klasa optimist'', 2004. * ''Ljubav, struja voda i telefon'', novel, 2005. * ''Krovna udruga i druga drama (Anđeli pakla)'', collection of plays, 2005., with Ivica Ivanišević * ''Građanin pokorni'', 2006. * ''Dečko koji obećava'', collection of columns, 2009. * ''Čudo u Poskokovoj Dragi'', novel, 2009. * ''Nisam pametan'', collection of columns, 2010. * ''Klevete i laži'', collection of columns, 2011. * ''Punoglavci'', novel, 2011.

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* 1970 births Living people Journalists from Split, Croatia Croatian novelists Male novelists Croatian male short story writers Croatian short story writers Croatian male writers Writers from Split, Croatia Croatian satirists 21st-century Croatian writers Croatian columnists University of Zadar alumni Croatian screenwriters Golden Arena winners Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language 21st-century screenwriters {{europe-journalist-stub