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Nikola Petković

His scholarly and literary works as well as book reviews Petkovic publishes in numerous national and international periodicals. He is a weekly columnist in the newspapers Novi list where he writes on poetry. Nikola Petkovic is the president of the Croatian Writers Society

Nikola Petkovic a prose writer, poet and literary critic, essayist and translator was born in the Croatian city of Rijeka in 1962. He is the Chair of The Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Rijeka. He too teaches at the Academy of Acting, Media and Film in Rijeka under the direction of an acclaimed actor and theater director, professor Rade Serbedzija. Aside from teaching at his home institution, he teaches postgraduate courses at the University of Zagreb (Faculty of Philosophy and Faculty of Political Science). His scholarly and literary works as well as book reviews Petkovic publishes in numerous national and international periodicals. He is a weekly columnist in one of the leading Croatian newspapers Novi list where he writes on the recent national and regional poetry production. His prose and poetry appeared in numerous anthologies.

Nikola Petkovic is the president of the Croatian Writers Society  

PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS

Novels:                       

How to Tie the Shoelaces. Novel, Zagreb: Algoritam, 2011.

Uspavanka za mrtve (A Lullaby for the Dead)) Zagreb: Profil International, May, 2007.

Priče iz Davnine (Stories From Ancient Times). Zagreb, Croatia: Quorum, 1989.

Essays:

A 2 DM Brain (Mozak od 2 marke) (a collection of essays written between 1996-1998 that deals with art, literature, culture and politics within both global and national ramifications of Franjo Tudjman’s rule in Croatia), Adamic Press, Biblioteka Veljko Vicevic, Rijeka, 2001.

Poetry:

in English

Las Regiones Perdidas (Poem; Bibliophile edition) LaNana Creek Press: Nacogdoches, TX November 2001.

in Croatian

Odisejev Pas (Ulysses’ Dog) Zagreb: Durieux & hdp, 2007.

Dan na bijelu hljebu. (Day on a White Bread) .Meandar, Zagreb. April 2001.

Melodije Istre i Kvarnera (Melodies of Istria and the Adriatic). Rijeka, Croatia: ICR, 1989.

 Vile i Vilenjaci (Fairies). Zagreb, Croatia: QUORUM, 1984.

 SCHOLARLY BOOKS

in Croatian

Identitet i granica: Hibridnost i jezik, kultura i građanstvo 21 stoljeća (Hybrid Identities and Border Cultures: Hybridity and Language, Culture and The Citizenship of the 21^st. Century), Zagreb: Jesenski i Turk. 2010.

Hrvatsko pjesništvo početka milenija, (Croatian Poetry at the Beginning of the Millennium), Zagreb: HDP i Jesenski i Turk. 2009. 

in English and in Croatian

A Central Europe of Our Own: Postmodernism, Postcolonialism, Postcommunism and The Absence of Authenticity. (second edition) Frankfurt AM, Central European Library, Dibido Publishers, 2009.

Srednja Europa: mit, zbilja, utopija. A Central Europe of Our Own: Postmodernism, Postcolonialism, Postcommunism and The Absence of Authenticity. Adamić, Rijeka, 2003.

 LINKS:

http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/19294/17/Nikola-Petkovic