Nino Raspudić (born 3 November 1975) is a

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philosopher, writer, political analyst and member of the

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. He is a professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in

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and the Faculty of Humanities in

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. He is a columnist for the ''

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'' and ''

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'', and is one of the editors of the ''Reflex'', a political show on

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Biography

Nino Raspudić was born into a

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family in

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. He finished elementary school in his birth town, and graduated from high school in

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. He graduated philosophy and Italian studies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in

in 1999. He became a Junior Researcher at the Department of Italian Literature of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb in 2000. In 2004 he gained master's degree with thesis ''Slaba misao - jaki pisci: postmoderna i talijanska književnost'' (''Weak Thought - Strong Writers: a Postmodernist Poetics in the Modern Italian Prose''). In 2008 he defended doctoral thesis ''Jadranski (polu)orijentalizam: prikazi Hrvata u talijanskoj književnosti'' (''Trans-Adriatic Semi-Orientalism: Dominant Models in Constituting a Picture of Croats in Italian Literature from Enlightenment until Today''). Raspudić was one of the founders of the civic organisation Urban Movement () in

together with Veselin Gatalo. Gatalo and Raspudić erected a life-size statue of Bruce Lee in Park Zrinjski in November 2005. The statue symbolised unity of Mostar in a city otherwise divided between Croats and

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. Raspudić translated a number of works of various Italian writers, including

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and

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. He also published number of literary critics and essays.

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Nino Raspudić
at the 11th Sabor {{DEFAULTSORT:Raspudic, Nino 1975 births Living people Writers from Mostar Croat writers from Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatian columnists Croatian philosophers Croatian translators Representatives in the modern Croatian Parliament Bosnia and Herzegovina translators Italian–Croatian translators