Ivica Đikić is a Bosnian writer and journalist. He was born 1977, in

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Career

Journalist career

He worked as a journalist for few Croatian newspapers, and he left the most impact on far left newspaper ''

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'' from

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where he worked in 1996. He started to work as a journalist from his 16, he was also active in ''

Slobodna Dalmacija ''Slobodna Dalmacija'' () is a Croatian daily newspaper published in Split. The first issue of ''Slobodna Dalmacija'' was published on 17 June 1943 by Tito's Partisans in an abandoned stone barn on Mosor, a mountain near Split, while the city ...

''. From 2001 he edited few Croatian magazines like '' Novi list''.

Writing career

He published his first novel in 2003 named ''

Cirkus Columbia ''Cirkus Columbia'' is a 2010 Bosnian drama film starring Miki Manojlović, Mira Furlan, Boris Ler and Jelena Stupljanin. The film is set in the Herzegovina part of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the early 1990s, after the dissolution of Yugoslavia, ...

'', published by ''

''. He is also awarded with Meša Selimović Award for this novel. The 2010 movie ''

'' is based on his novel. The novel is set in writer's hometown

, a small town in

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in early 1990s, just before

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. In 2004 Đikić published political biography of former Croatian president

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named ''Domovinski obrat'' ( en, Homeland reversal), published by VBZ from

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. In 2007 Đikić wrote his second novel called ''Ništa sljezove boje'' ( en, Nothing in Marshmallow Colour), published by ''Feral Tribune''. This new novel is composed of three stories, ''Zeleni dvorac'' ( en, Green Castle), ''Probaj zaspati, molim te'' ( en, Please, Try to Sleep) and ''Kao da ništa nije bilo'' ( en, Like Nothing Happened). He is also the primary writer of the television series ''

Novine ''Novine'' ( en, The Paper), is a Croatian drama series that has been broadcast on Hrvatska Radiotelevizija since 2016. The screenplay for it was written by Ivica Đikić, a journalist who had served as editor-in-chief of Rijeka's '' Novi list'' ...

''.https://hrtprikazuje.hrt.hr/355664/dramska-serija-novine

References

* ''

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Ivica Đikić novi glavni urednik "Novosti"
October 22, 2010. * '' Jutarnji list''
Glavni urednik Novog lista Ivica Đikić podnio ostavku
March 30, 2010. {{DEFAULTSORT:Dikic, Ivica Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina writers Croatian writers from Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatian journalists Croatian novelists Croatian male writers Male novelists People from Tomislavgrad 1977 births Living people