Julijana Matanović (born 6 April 1959) is a Bosnian Croat

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writer and

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. She is also a

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at the

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, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, where she teaches

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Croatian

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Life

She was born in

Gradačac Gradačac () is a city located in the Tuzla Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated in the northeastern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, roughly south of the Sava river. As of 2013, ...

, went to primary school in

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and then on to high school in

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, before enrolling at University of Osijek where she earned a degree in Yugoslav languages and literature in 1982. In 1998 she earned her doctorate at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb with a thesis called ''Povijesni roman u hrvatskoj književnosti XX. stoljeća'' (). Her works have been translated into German, Hungarian, Serbian and Slovenian.

Selected works

* ''Zašto sam vam lagala'' (1997) * ''Bilješka o piscu'' (2000) , * ''Lijepi običaji'' (2000) * ''Kao da smo otac i kći'' (2003) , * ''Krsto i Lucijan'' (2003) * ''Laura nije samo anegdota'' (2005) * ''Tko se boji lika još'' (2008) , * ''Knjiga od žena, muškaraca, gradova i rastanaka'' (2009)

References

1959 births Living people People from Gradačac Croat writers from Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatian novelists 21st-century Croatian women writers University of Osijek alumni Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb alumni Academic staff of the University of Osijek Academic staff of the University of Zagreb Croatian women novelists {{Croatia-writer-stub