Jurica Pavičić (born 2 November 1965 in
Split) is a writer, columnist and film critic.
Pavičić's screenplay for ''
Witnesses
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A witness might be compelled to provide testimony in court, before a grand jur ...
'' (''Svjedoci''),
Vinko Brešan's 2003 film, won the
Golden Arena for Best Screenplay in the 2003
Pula Film Festival. The screenplay, co-written with
Živko Zalar, is based on Pavičić's
debut novel
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''Alabaster Sheep'' (''Ovce od gipsa''). His novels and short story collections have been translated to English, German, Italian, French and Bulgarian.
Pavičić was, with
Nenad Polimac, one of two Croatian film critics who participated in the
British Film Institute
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's ''
Sight & Sound'' Greatest Films of All Time poll in 2012.
In 2014, Pavičić received the
Croatian Journalists' Association's Journalist of the Year Award.
In 2017, Pavičić has signed the
Declaration on the Common Language of the
Croats
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,
Serbs
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,
Bosniaks
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and
Montenegrins
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.
Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language
official website, retrieved on 2018-08-16.
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Works
Novels
* ''Ovce od gipsa'' (1997)
* ''Nedjeljni prijatelj'' (2000)
* ''Minuta 88'' (2002)
* ''Kuća njene majke'' (2005)
* ''Crvenkapica'' (2006)
* ''Žena s drugog kata'' (2015)
* ''Crvena voda'' (2017)
Plays
* ''Trovačica'' (2000)
Short story collections
* ''Patrola na cesti'' (2008)
* ''Brod u dvorištu'' (2013)
* ''Skupljač zmija'' (2019)
Non-fiction
* ''Vijesti iz Liliputa'' (2001)
* ''Postjugoslavenski film: Stil i ideologija'' (2011)
* ''Klasici hrvatskog filma jugoslavenskog razdoblja'' (2017)
* ''Knjiga o jugu'' (2018)
Sources
External links
*
Jurica Pavičić
at booksa.hr
Jurica Pavičić
at mvinfo.hr
1965 births
Croatian novelists
Croatian dramatists and playwrights
Croatian male short story writers
Croatian short story writers
Croatian columnists
Croatian screenwriters
Croatian film critics
Golden Arena winners
Writers from Split, Croatia
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb alumni
Living people
Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language
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