Milana Vlaović (; born 1971 in

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) is a

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n journalist, composer, writer and columnist.

Journalistic career

She had finished her elementary school as well as high school in

, and as she turned 18, she started to study at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb. While she was studying, she worked as a part-time associate on

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and conducted interviews with people from public life for magazine ''Pop Extra'' and contribution TV Best in ''

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'' magazine. Due to her then-husband Goran's football career, she is moving to

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for two years, then she lived in

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the next four years, and later she has moved to

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for four years. In 2004, she returned to

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and continued her composing, literary, and journalistic career by writing columns for different Croatian daily newspapers, such as '' Jutarnji list'', and weekly newspapers. In 2004, she graduated journalism on Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb. For many years, she was writing columns for lifestyle magazine ''Storybook'' in which she conducted broad, biographic interviews with well-known people from the world of theater, film, music and television. In 2015, she finished a four-year long education from an integrative psychotherapy.

Music career

Since she came back to Zagreb, she started to collaborate with various Croatian musicians. Already in 1990, she performed in a backup band with

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at the

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in Zagreb with the song "

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". Representing what was then

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, they won seventh place in the competition. When she was 25, she began writing lyrics and music for pop songs, and in 2002, her song " Sasvim sigurna", performed by

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, won the Croatian music competition Dora, and represented

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at the

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where it won eleventh place. She wrote music and lyrics for six studio albums by Vesna Pisarović and

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, which won numerous gold and silver awards. Her songs have been awarded at numerous music festivals, such as Melodije hrvatskog Jadrana, Zlatne žice Slavonije, Dora, while her song "Prava ljubav", which was performed by Lana Jurčević and

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, won the Croatian award "Hit of the year" in 2006. She is the member of Croatian Composers Society.

Writing career

Until now, she has published four prose works: * ''Blato'', V.B.Z., 2007. * ''Bomboni od meda'', Naklada Ljevak, 2011. * ''Rašeljka i druge žene'', EPH, 2013. * ''Glad'', HENA COM, 2016. In 2013, in collaboration with

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and EPH, she published her book ''Priče o nedjeljnom kolaču''. She is the member of Croatian Writers Society.

References

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