Dražen Katunarić (born 25 December 1954) is a Croatian poet, essayist, novelist and editor.
Early life and education Katunarić was born in 1954 in Zagreb where he spent his childhood and completed secondary schooling. He studied philosophy at the University of Human Sciences in Strasbourg.
Career 1991–1993 Editor of the Literary Journal "Lettre internationale" – Croatian Edition. Since 1993, editor in chief of the Literary Journal The Bridge and The European Messenger (HDP). 2001–2006 Vice-president of Croatian P.E.N. Centre
Since 1980 he has published poems, essays, travelogues, novels, tales, articles in Croatian and foreign reviews and translated into French, English, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Romanian, Macedonian, Albanian, German, and Corsican.
On May 16, 2024, he was elected Full Member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Selected bibliography Bacchus in marble (poems), Zagreb 1983 Sand Trap (poems), Zagreb 1985 Imposture (poems), Zagreb 1987 At Sea (poems), Zagreb 1988 Psalms (poems), Zagreb 1990 The Abrupt Voice (poems), Zagreb 1991 The House of Decadence (essays), Zagreb 1992 Sky/Earth (poems), Zagreb 1993 Church, Street, Zoo (travelogue) Zagreb 1994 The Return of the Barbarogenius (essays), Zagreb 1995 The Poem of Stjepan (poems), Zagreb 1996 Diocletian's Palace (essays), Zagreb-Split 1997 The Story of the Cave (essays), Zagreb 1998 Glue for Nightingale (poems), Zagreb 1999 The Readed Heart (selected poems), Zagreb 1999 Parabola (poems) Zagreb 2001 Fatal Image (novel), Zagreb 2002 Tiger Balm (tales), Zagreb, 2005 The Lyre/Delirium (poems), Zagreb 2006 The beggar woman (novel), Zagreb, 2009Prosjakinja, www.mvinfo.hr Infernet and Others Texts (essay), Zagreb 2010Infernet i drugi tekstovi, www.mvinfo.hr Chronos (poems), Zagreb 2011 One Day it Was a Night (selected and new poems), 2015 The Smile of Padre Pio (novel), Zagreb 2017 Sign in the Shadow (poems), Zagreb 2017 Farewell, Desert (novel), Zagreb 2022 What Zeus whispered to me? (poems), Zagreb 2023
Published books abroad Ecclesia invisibilis (selected poems), Academia Orient. Occident, Bucurest, 2001 Isolomania (selected poems), Albiana, Ajaccio, France, 2004 Cherries (selected poems), Blue Aster Press, N.Y., 2004 Kthimi i barbrogjenive, Ditet e Naimit, Tetove 2007 Ciel/Terre, L'Arbre à paroles", Amay, 2008 Le baume du tigre, Mode Est-Ouest, Bruxelles, 2009 Die Bettlerin, Leykam, Graz, 2009 La mendiante, Mode Est-Ouest, Bruxelles, 2012. Cer/Pămînt, Cronedit, Iaşi, 2016 Poem efemer, ronedit, Iaşi, 2016 La maison du déclin, M.E.O. Editions, Bruxelles, 2017La maison du délin, www.meo-edition.eu Cronos, Krivodol, Buenos Aires, 2017 Je reste plus longtemps dans la mer, L'Ollave, Lyon, 2023
Awards 1984. "Branko Radičević" Award for the best poetry book in Yugoslavia 1994. "Tin Ujević" - Croatian Writers Association Award for the best poetry book in 1993 1999. Award of Matrix Croatica for Literature for the best collection of poetry in 1998 1999. "European Circle Award" for Literature 1999. The title "Knight of Arts and Literature" by French Ministry of Culture 2002. Macedonian price "Menada", "for the specific value of poetry" 2009. Austrian Steiermaerkische Sparkasse price for the novel The beggar woman (Die Bettlerin) 2015. Balcanica Price for poetry (Romania) 2018. "Dragutin Tadijanović" Award for the collection of poetry Sign of the Shadow 2022. "Olive Wreath" for poetry, Croatia rediviva, Selce 2023. Finalist of the Mallarmé price in with a book Je reste plus longtemps dans la mer
References
External links Dražen Katunarić, Hrvatsko društvo pisaca, www.hrvatskodrustvopisaca.hr Dražen Katunarić, Ustanak snova (pjesme), Vijenac, 330/2006. Dražen Katunarić, Dvorac grofa Drakule (proza), Kolo, 3/2004. Andrija Tunjić, Dražen Katunarić: Barbarogenij je junak našeg doba, Vijenac, 547/2015.