Predrag Matvejević

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Predrag Matvejević was born in Mostar in 1932 to a Croatian mother and a Ukrainian^[1] father, but prefers to be known as Yugoslavian. He is now a naturalised Italian citizen.

He is known for his writing as well as for his political activism. His book Mediterranean Breviary: A Cultural Landscape has been a bestseller in many European countries, and was translated into more than 20 languages. Matvejević emigrated to France in 1991, but from 1994 he has lived in Italy. He teaches at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle (New Sorbonne) in Paris as well as in the Sapienza in Rome. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Novi Plamen.

[edit] Works (incomplete)

(Most of his books have appeared in Croatian, Italian and French editions)

Sartre (essay, 1965)
Razgovori s Krležom (1969, with several reprints up to 1987)
Prema novom kulturnom stvaralaštvu (1975)
Književnost i njezina društvena funkcija (1977)
Te vjetrenjače (1977)
Jugoslavenstvo danas (Beograd,1984)
Otvorena pisma (1985)
Mediteranski brevijar (1987)^[2]
Istočni epistolar (1995)
Gospodari rata i mira (with V. Stevanović and Z. Dizdarević, 2000)
Druga Venecija (2002)

Le monde «ex» - Confessions (Paris, 1966)
Pour une poétique de l'événement (Paris, 1979)
La Méditerranée et l'Europe - Leçons au College de France (Paris, 1998)
L'Ile-Méditerranée (Paris, 2000)

Epistolario dell’altra Europa (Garzanti, Milan 1992)
Sarajevo (Motta, Milan 1995)
Ex Jugoslavia. Diario di una guerra (Magma, Milan 1995)
Tra asilo ed esilio (Meltemi, Rome 1998)
Il Mediterraneo e l’Europa (Garzanti, Milan 1998)
I signori della guerra (Garazanti, Milan 1999)
Un’Europa maledetta (Baldini e Castoldi, Milan 2005)

^ His father was born in USSR, and so, he was said to be “Russian”. His mother was born in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and she is said to be Bosniac.
^ Written in Croatian, this book has been reprinted many times and translated into more than twenty languages