Pavao Pavličić (born 16 August 1946, in
Vukovar
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n writer, literary historian and translator whose main focus are
crime novels
Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, ...
. He writes for both adults and children.
Pavao Pavličić was born on August 16, 1946 in Vukovar, where he completed elementary school and high school. In 1969, he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of Zagreb University with a degree in comparative literature and the Italian language, and in 1974 he received his doctorate with a thesis in the field of metrics (Rhyme sisters in Croatian literature: literary-theoretical and literary-historical aspects).
Since 1997, Pavličić is a full member of the
Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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.
In 2014 he won the
Zvane Črnja Award for his ''Narodno veselje.''.
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1946 births
Living people
Croatian novelists
Male novelists
Croatian essayists
Croatian male writers
Male essayists
Croatian translators
Crime fiction writers
Members of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
People from Vukovar
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb alumni
University of Zagreb faculty
Croatian screenwriters
Translators from Italian
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