Mladen Jurčić

Mladen Jurčić was born in 1951 in Zagreb, where he attended primary and secondary school and graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy, majoring in English and philosophy, earning the professional title of professor of English language, literature and philosophy. After graduating, he taught in several primary and secondary schools in Zagreb and the surrounding area, and after that he worked as an editor in the publishing houses "Spektar", "Alfa" and in the Croatian Literary Society of St. Jerome. He is a member of the Society of Croatian Writers, and until his retirement in 2016, he was also a member of the Croatian Association of Independent Artists. He writes novels, stories, poems, plays and essays, and so far he has published ten books: two novels, a collection of essays, two collections of stories, five collections of poems, and two plays. In addition, he published stories, poems, essays, reviews and articles in magazines ("Nova Istra", "Republika", "Književna Rijeka", "Marulić", "Kačić" and others) as well as in weeklies and newspapers.

Books:

The meaning of a bruise (novel), HKD st. Jeronima, Zagreb 1992. Distances, proximity (collection of poems), HKD St. Jeronima, Zagreb, 1995. Meetings with Christ (collection of stories), In the right moment, Đakovo, 1995. Battle for meaning (collection of essays), HKD vol. Jeronima, Zagreb, 1997 Kralj nedogleda (poem collection), HKD st. Jeronima, Zagreb, 1998. At the source of midnight (collection of stories), HKD St. Jeronima, Zagreb, 1999. Nobody (collection of poems), HKD St. Jeronima, Zagreb, 2001. The Mysterious Portal (novel), HKD St. Jeronima, Zagreb, 2002. The last solitudes (collection of poems), HKD St. Jeronima, Zagreb, 2004. Domesticated in silence (collection of poems), Biakova, Zagreb 2023.

Dramas:

Body in the Deep (radio drama), III. program of Radio Zagreb, 1987. Palace in the Air (drama), Nova Istra, Pula, 1996.

Anthologies:

Božidar Petrač: On top of the old Grič hill, Zagreb in Croatian poetry of the 19th and 20th centuries, Zagreb Public Open University, Zagreb, 2000. The miracle of the first. Selection, foreword and translation: Leonid Talalaj, Main Specialized Editorial Office of Literature, Kyiv 2000. Christ in Croatian poetry, an anthology of spiritual poetry. Selected and edited by: Vladimir Lončarević, Verbum, Split, 2007. Josip Sanko Rabar: Bread and wine, a collection of contemporary Croatian poetry, Hum naklada d.o.o., Zagreb 2009.

Collections:

Ivo Mijo Andrić: Writer at work, essays and literary presentations, self-published, Sarajevo 2006. Ivo Mijo Andrić: Read writers, own edition, Sarajevo 2007. Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), Jerry L. Walls, Jeffrey Burton Russell, Mladen Jurčić: Heaven and the Afterlife, Reflections on the Overworld, HKD St. Jeronima, Zagreb 2009. Branko Pilaš: Sources and incentives (discover the secret about the creation of a literary work), self-published), Zagreb 2013.

Anthology of short stories:

Angels never give up, 25 best short stories by Glas Koncila, Glas Koncila, Zagreb, 2013. Mladen Jurčić and his work are also listed in: Croatian Literary Encyclopedia 2 Gl – Ma, Lexicographic Institute Miroslav Krleža, Zagreb, printing completed on October 31, 2010