Marinko Koščec (born 1967 in

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) is a

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Life and Work

Koščec studied English and French language and literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Zagreb, graduated with

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on ''Man in search of his double - the world seen through the work of

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'' (L'Homme en quête de son double – le monde vu à travers l’oeuvre de J. M. G. Le Clézio, 1992), then he continued his studies at the

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(1989) and the

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(1990), obtained his

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with thesis on ''Figuration of the unsaid in the contemporary novel'' (Figuration du non-dit dans le roman contemporaine, 1995) at Diderot University Paris, and completed as

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with thesis on ''Poetry of

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, stylistic and contextual study of

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'' (Poetika Michela Houellebecqa. Naratološka, stilistička i kontekstualna studija opusa, 2005) in Zagreb. Koščec is

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at Department of

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of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and he also worked as freelance editor at SysPrint

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from 2008 to 2011. He is author of seven novels, laureate of V.B.Z. Award 2003, and Croatian translator of the novels

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and

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, his novels ''A Handful of Sand'' and ''Centimetre of Happiness'' has been published in English (2013) and

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(2014) translation.

Bibliography

*''Otok pod morem'' (Island Under The Sea), Feral Tribune,

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1999, . *''Netko drugi'' (Someone else), Konzor, Zagreb 2001, . *''Wonderland'', VBZ, Zagreb 2003, . *''To malo pijeska na dlanu'' (A Handful of Sand), Profil international, Zagreb 2005, . *''Michel H. : mirakul, mučenik, manipulator?'' ( Michel H.: Miraculus, martyr, manipulator?), Izdanja Antibarbarus, Zagreb 2007, . *''Centimetar od sreće'' (Centimetre of Happiness), Profil international, Zagreb 2008, . *''Četvrti čovjek'' (The Fourth Man), Algoritam, Zagreb 2011, . *''A Handful of Sand'',

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, London 2013, .Review
Parish Lantern, retrieved 2018-12-03. *''Een centimeter vanaf het geluk'' (Centimetre of Happiness), KLIN,

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2014, . *''U potrazi za početkom kruga'' (In Pursuit of the Beginning of the Circle), Sandorf, Zagreb 2016,.

References

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