Ratko Cvetnić is the only receiver of full one year subsidy for writing of Croatian Ministry of Culture in 2008.
Ratko Cvetnić
Born in Zagreb in 1957. High school degree in humanities, studied Comparative Literature and Art History at University of Zagreb. Started as a proof-reader and sports journalist in publishing house Vjesnik in Zagreb; since late nineties works as an official of Zagreb Sports Association. In 1997. releases book 'Short Outing' ('Kratki izlet') based on personal experiences from recent war in Croatia (1991-1995). As an author, translator, editor, associate takes part in a number of different sports publications. One of those is '120 Years of Skiing in Zagreb and Croatia'.
He is the only receiver of full one year subsidy for writing of Croatian Ministry of Culture in 2008. In 2009. he will release the new book.
BOOKS
'Short Outing' (1997)
translations// German, Polish and Slovenian
awards// Gjalski (Croatian Book Award)
About 'Short Outing'//
Cvetnić is describing the time he spent serving in Croatian Army during the war in Croatia from August 1992 till September 1993. The book contains plenty of anecdotes from the war-front, some of them personally experienced, some of them heard through others, thoughts on Croatia in war, together with a lot of irony and humor. Besides being amusing and convincing, this book managed to overcome the usual weak point of majority of other Croatian works of the same genre - there is no pathetics.