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<\/a><\/p>\nDamir Karaka\u0161<\/strong> was born in 1967 in the village of Pla\u0161\u0107ica near Brinje in Lika. He studied agronomy, law and journalism in Zagreb, and for a few years he worked as a journalist writing the crime column in Ve\u010dernji List <\/em>in Split. In 2001, he moved to Bordeaux in France, and between 2002 and 2007 he lived in Paris, where he earned a living by playing the accordion. He studied French Language at the New Sorbonne University in Paris, performed and exhibited conceptual works. Even as a teenager, he published caricatures and drawings in numerous newspapers in ex-Yugoslavia. He has won several renowned prizes for caricature. He has published the chronicle book Bosanci su Dobri Ljudi<\/em><\/strong> (The Bosnians are Good People, <\/em>1999), the novel Kombetari<\/em> <\/strong>(2000), the collection of stories Kino Lika<\/em><\/strong> (The Lika Cinema, <\/em>2001), the novel Kako sam U\u0161ao u Europu<\/em><\/strong> (How I Entered Europe, <\/em>2004), the collection of stories Eskimi<\/em> <\/strong>(Eskimos, <\/em>2007), the novel Sjajno Mjesto za Nesre\u0107u<\/em> <\/strong>(A Great Place for Tragedy, <\/em>2009), the collection of stories Pukovnik Betoven<\/em><\/strong> (Colonel Beethoven, <\/em>2012), and the novel Blue Moon<\/em><\/strong> (2014). Director Dalibor Matani\u0107 has made a film based on the book Kino Lika<\/em><\/strong>, which received multiple awards in Croatia and abroad. The play Skoro Nikad ne Zaklju\u010davamo (We Almost Never Lock in)<\/em><\/strong> within the play Zagreba\u010dki Pentagram (The Zagreb Pentagram)<\/em> was directed by Paolo Magelli for the scene of the ZKM. Dalibor Matani\u0107 directed the play based on the novel Sjajno Mjesto za Nesre\u0107u<\/em>, for the stage of the Croatian National Theatre in Rijeka (2010). Franka Perkovi\u0107 directed the play Snajper<\/em><\/strong> (The <\/em>Sniper) for the scene of the ZKM (2013), and Ivica Buljan directed the same play in Abidjan, Ivory Coast (2013). He has been translated into dozen languages.<\/p>\n The master of the vivid dialogue and condense sentence.<\/p>\n (Jasen Boko, Slobodna Dalmacija<\/em>)<\/p>\n Even if we had a thousand writers like me, we wouldn\u2019t have literature, because it is made by writers like Damir Karaka\u0161, who have chosen the destiny of a writer, who live as writers\u2026 These are the people who write on their own risk and their own peril, but create literature.<\/p>\n (Denis Kulji\u0161, Gordogan<\/em>)<\/p>\n Flower among potatoes.<\/p>\n (Dra\u017een Ilin\u010di\u0107, Ve\u010dernji List<\/em>)<\/p>\n A carefully weighted out swear word says more than thousand descriptions.<\/p>\n (Matej Bogataj, Mladina<\/em>)<\/p>\n \u00a0About the book <\/strong>Sjajno mjesto za nesre\u0107u<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n In his new work, Karaka\u0161 maintained all familiar characteristics of his distinctive prose manuscript which is nothing like modern Croatian authors: great literary energy and rich vitality of expressive short sentence freed from any ornaments.<\/p>\n (Mirjana Juri\u0161i\u0107, Ve\u010dernji List<\/em>)<\/p>\n \u00a0The media put the black brow of Karaka\u0161 into the drawer of weirdos long time ago, because they don\u2019t know where else to put him. A writer, screenwriter, hobo, painter, journalist, musician, actor? None of these determinants describes Karaka\u0161 completely, nor does he want to position his public persona in any of the given groups. The problem is that whatever he tries, he does well.<\/p>\n (Bo\u017eidar Pavlovi\u0107, Booksa<\/em>)<\/p>\n \u00a0Sjajno mjesto za nesre\u0107u<\/em> is the most complex (includes the entire scope of modern problems) and so far definitely the most successful (well guided plot-wise, with balanced composition and compelling narrative) prose of Damir Karaka\u0161.<\/p>\n (Strahimir Primorac, Vijenac<\/em>)<\/p>\n \u00a0About the book <\/strong>Kino Lika<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n I would not recommend this exceptional collection of stories by Damir Karaka\u0161 to people with weaker stomachs. I completely agree with the recommendation of Robert Peri\u0161i\u0107, manager of the library, stated on the cover: keep out of reach of children and petty bourgeoisie.<\/p>\n (Davor \u0160i\u0161ovi\u0107, Glas Istre<\/em>)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em>About the book Pukovnik Betoven<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Pukovnik Betoven<\/em>, as well as the entire Lika trilogy of Damir Karaka\u0161 (soon between the covers of a single book), shows steady progress of an authentic letter that disfigures and disturbs.<\/p>\n (Sa\u0161a \u0106iri\u0107, Radio Beograd<\/em>)<\/p>\n About the book Blue Moon<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Karaka\u0161 uses clearly bordered perspective that enables him to show signs of impending catastrophe, but the mini twists within the complex narrative are tose that are brilliantly motivated and do not allow him to interpret and read these signs. It is not only the cuscuta, the skilfully found symbol of true and pretence innocence of baby boomers who carried out wars on the territory of ex-Yugoslavia either as ideologists or leaders, or cannon fodder, or initiators of anti-war demonstrations and peace initiatives, but larger part of them (did I say us) was precisely like protagonist of the Blue Moon<\/em>, a guy who wanted to have great hair, ride a great bike, win girls, to be free and true to himself\u2026<\/p>\n (Vladimir Arseni\u0107, E-Novine<\/em>)<\/p>\n I am cold towards Karaka\u0161, I have never met him, and something tells me that I can\u2019t meet him; because it is an illusion that we are contemporaries and that we walk the same streets. He belongs to the Croatian literature and culture, and I am here rather by chance. It is true, this has been going on for twenty something years, but not all cases are short and concise like Kharms\u2019. There are epic, decades-long coincidences. Therefore, I don\u2019t have a personal reason for writing this text. But yes, I read Karaka\u0161\u2019s books. You know, I read everything. Lately this everything boils down to first several pages. At least five minutes per day I dedicate to the modern Croatian literature. This, however, means that I have read everything several times. The Blue Moon<\/em> very carefully, from the first to the last word. Enjoying it and, after two thirds of this very short book, with respect for the author.<\/p>\n (Miljenko Jergovi\u0107, Jutarnji List<\/em>)<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sorry, this entry is only available in \u0421\u0440\u043f\u0441\u043a\u0438.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-75","category-ucesnici-2015"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2023,"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions\/2023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}