Maja Bošković-Stulli (9 November 1922 – 14 August 2012) was a Croatian

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and

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, literary historian, writer, publisher and an academic, noted for her extensive research of Croatian oral literature.

Early life

Bošković-Stulli was born in

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to a

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ish family of Dragutin and Ivanka Bošković. She joined the

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– SKOJ (from Serbo-Croatian: ''Savez komunističke omladine Jugoslavije'') during Gymnasium education. In 1943, after the

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and liberation of the

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, she joined the Partisans. Many members of her family perished during the

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, including her parents and sister

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Education and later years

Bošković-Stulli finished elementary and secondary school in

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. She graduated from the

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and received her PhD in 1961. She took part in many national and international conferences and symposiums, including the Inter-University Centre in

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. For many years she was chief editor, and afterwards a regular member, of the editorial board for the journal ''Narodna umjetnost''. She worked at the

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, and from 1952 until her retirement in 1979 she worked at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb. From 1963-73 she was the Director of the Institute. Bošković-Stulli wrote around twenty books and a large number of papers in national and international academic journals. She has received a number of awards for her research work, the annual award in 1975 and the Croatian lifework award in 1990, the

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in Vienna 1991, and Pitre Salomone Marino prize in

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1992. She was a regular member at the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. In 2005 Bošković-Stulli was named among 35 Croatia's most important women in history. Bošković-Stulli died on 14 August 2012 in Zagreb and was buried at the

Mirogoj Cemetery The Mirogoj City Cemetery (, hr, Gradsko groblje Mirogoj), also known as Mirogoj Cemetery ( hr, Groblje Mirogoj), is a cemetery park that is considered to be among the more noteworthy landmarks in the city of Zagreb. The cemetery inters members o ...

.Gradska groblja Zagreb: Maja Bošković-Stulli, Mirogoj Ž-119-II-48.

Works

* ''Istarske narodne priče'', Zagreb 1959 * ''Narodne pripovijetke ("Pet stoljeća hrvatske književnosti")'', Zagreb 1963 * ''Narodne epske pjesme, knj. 2 ("Pet stoljeća hrvatske književnosti")'', Zagreb 1964 * ''Narodna predaja o vladarevoj tajni'', Zagreb 1967 * ''Usmena književnost ("Povijest hrvatske književnosti" 1, pp. 7–353)'', Zagreb 1978 * ''Usmena književnost nekad i danas'', Beograd 1983 * ''Usmeno pjesništvo u obzorju književnosti'', Zagreb 1984; * ''Zakopano zlato. Hrvatske usmene pripovijetke, predaje i legende iz Istre'', Pula – Rijeka 1986 * ''U kralja od Norina. Priče, pjesme, zagonetke i poslovice s Neretve'', Metković – Opuzen 1987 * ''Pjesme, priče, fantastika'', Zagreb 1991; * ''Žito posred mora. Usmene priče iz Dalmacije'', Split 1993 * ''Priče i pričanje: stoljeća usmene hrvatske proze'', Zagreb 1997 * ''Usmene pripovijetke i predaje ("Stoljeća hrvatske književnosti")'', Zagreb 1997 * ''O usmenoj tradiciji i o životu'', Zagreb 1999

References

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External links

Bošković-Stulli's biography
at the

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