Jurica Pavičić (born 2 November 1965 in

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n writer, columnist and film critic. Pavičić's screenplay for ''

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's 2003 film, won the

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in the 2003

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. The screenplay, co-written with Živko Zalar, is based on Pavičić's

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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

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, one of two Croatian film critics who participated in the

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'' 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

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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

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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 {{Croatia-writer-stub