Marko Grčić (born 17 September 1938) is a Croatian
journalist
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Roles
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,
translator
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,
poet
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,
essayist
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, and
publicist
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.
Life
He was born on 17 September 1938 in
Sinj
Sinj () is a List of cities and towns in Croatia, town in the continental part of Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia. As of the 2021 Croatian census, 2021 census, the population was 23,500 people, of which 10,800 inhabited its urban core.
Sinj is k ...
,
Croatia
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. After completing his secondary education in Sinj, Grčić pursued studies in
Yugoslav and English languages and literature at the
Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb.
His professional career began in 1959 as a part-time
proofreader
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for ''
Vjesnik u srijedu
''Vjesnik'' () was a Croatian state-owned daily newspaper published in Zagreb. Originally established in 1940 as a wartime illegal publication of the Communist Party of Croatia, it later built and maintained a reputation as Croatia's newspaper ...
''.
In 1964, he transitioned to a full-time editor role, and from 1967 to 1976, he served as a
desk editor.
Subsequently, he worked as a desk editor at ''Start'' magazine until 1986, followed by a position as assistant
editor-in-chief
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.
From 1990 to 2004, he held the role of editor at the weekly ''
Globus
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''.
In 2008, a selection of his columns was published in a book titled ''Riječi, riječi, riječi'' (''Words, words, words''),
which earned him the Kiklop Award.
In 2013, he received the
Zvana Črnja Award for his essay book ''Slijepi Argus'' (''Blind Argus'').
Grčić has contributed poems, essays, and translations to various literary magazines. In 1968, he participated in a
modern Croatian translation of the Bible.
His work includes contemporary language translations of notable Croatian literary classics such as
Marulić's
Judita
''Judith'' () is one of the most important Croatian literary works, an epic poem written by the "father of Croatian literature" Marko Marulić in 1501.
Editions
The work was finished on April 22, 1501, and was published three times during Mar ...
,
Zoranić's
Planine,
Hektorović's ''
Ribanje i ribarsko prigovaranje'', and
Lucić's
Robinja. He translated into Croatia works by renowned international authors, including
Eliot,
Gibran,
Blake,
Pound,
Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo ( ; ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known w ...
, and
Tagore
Rabindranath Thakur (; anglicised as Rabindranath Tagore ; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengalis, Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renai ...
.
Bibliography
Poetry
* Nebeska vučica (1969)
* Behemot (1977)
* Nebeska vučica: izabrane pjesme (2001)
Essay collections
* Provincia deserta (1970)
* Riječi, riječi, riječi (2008)
* Spomenar (2010)
* Tri hrvatske nostalgije (2014)
* Slijepi Argus (2013)
* Muzej na Medvjeđoj planini (2017)
* Je li Biblija opasna knjiga, i druge uspomene (2018)
* Otpalo lišće (2021)
References
Living people
1938 births
Croatian writers
Croatian journalists
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People from Sinj