Gordan Nuhanović
Gordan Nuhanović was born in 1968 in Vinkovci. He worked as a war
reporter during the war in Croatia and is presently a journalist and a
literary critic in Croatia. He is literary commentator for the main
weekly television program devoted to book reviews and literary topics.
His short stories have appeared in numerous literary journals, and his
short story collections in Croatian include ‘The Survival League’
(2000), and ‘Battle for Every Last Man’ (2003) and the novel ‘Last Days
of Punk’ (2006).
He received The Society of Croatian writers Nightingale Award and
the Ivan Kozarac Award. His collection of short stories Survival League
has been published in USA, Ooligan Press of Portland State University
(2005).
BOOKS
‘The Survival League’ (2000)
‘Battle for Every Last Man’ (2003)
translations// English
awards// The Society of Croatian writers Nightingale Award
Ivan Kozarac Award
‘Last Days of Punk’ (2006)
rights sold//Czech Republic
'Probably Forever', novel (2009)
'Agents of Culture', novel (2013)
About ‘Last Days of Punk’//
This is both generational and ‘degenerational’ novel. Generational
because it tells a story of a destiny of a generation which at the end
of 1990s slowly says goodbye to its youth, and degenerational because
the time does not play in their favour: None of the standpoints of their
youth have survived this ‘transition that never stops.’ From their
perspective, that of an expendable generation, the society is thoroughly
degenerated. The main character, resigned journalist, comes to his
hometown for a short visit and joins a cultural ‘resistance movement’
gathered around the Wet Bagel Punk Club. But the new, legal and illegal
structures of power have a preference for a different culture and
methods of persuasion: They just as easily reach for violence and
exorcism. ‘The Last Days of Punk’ is a satire and a grotesque, a
Kafkasque parable with elements of comedy about nineties in Croatia.