Literature for children • Literature for children
Pisac i princeza
Sunčana Škrinjarić
Intended for a more demanding teenage audience, the novel speaks inspiredly about her problems, but also about universal problems.
The novel The Writer and the Princess by the contemporary Croatian writer Sunčana Škrinjarić won the Grigor Vitez award in 1984. Written in such a way that it can satisfy even an adult reader, this layered prose, which touches on poetry, will arouse in many people a threatened childhood chord.
The novel tells the story of a boy named Viktor who, after moving, finds himself in a strange and mysterious street. The street is filled with old houses and unusual residents, and the most enigmatic is an old woman who reveals to him that the street hide