Lada Kaštelan (born 2 May 1961) is a

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n dramatist and screenwriter. Between 1987 and 2007, Kaštelan worked as a

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at the

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. Since 2007, she has been a professor at the

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. Kaštelan's screenplay for '' Fragments: Chronicle of a Vanishing'', co-written with

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, received the

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at the 1992

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. Her play ''Giga i njezini'' received the 1995 Marin Držić Award.

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* 1961 births Croatian dramatists and playwrights Croatian screenwriters Croatian women dramatists and playwrights Women screenwriters Writers from Zagreb Academic staff of the University of Zagreb Living people Golden Arena winners {{Croatia-writer-stub