Boris Dežulović

Boris Dežulović (born 20 November 1964)[1] is a Croatian journalist, writer and columnist, best known as one of the founders of the now defunct satirical magazine Feral Tribune.

Boris Dežulović
Born (1964-11-20) 20 November 1964
Split, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia
OccupationJournalist and novelist
NationalityCroatian
Period1984present
PartnerRose Fistanić
ChildrenDora Dežulović

Biography

Dežulović studied art history at the University of Split.[2] He began his career by writing for the Croatian newspaper Slobodna Dalmacija.[3]

Along with Viktor Ivančić and Predrag Lucić, he was one of the three original members of the "VIVA LUDEŽ" trio of Split-based humorists who first began writing in 1984 and eventually established the Feral Tribune magazine in 1993.[4][5]

In 1999, Dežulović left Feral Tribune and joined the popular current affairs weekly Globus where he was one of their columnists.[1]

Dežulović is also a writer. In 2003, he published Christkind,[6] a science fiction novel about time travel which explores ethical dilemmas surrounding the possibility of killing baby Hitler. His second novel was published in 2005, titled Jebo sad hiljadu dinara[7] (lit. Who gives a fuck about a thousand dinars now), a satirical novel about the war in Bosnia, and a book of poetry titled Pjesme iz Lore (Poems from Lora). The latter was also published in German in 2008, titled Gedichte aus Lora.

Dežulović won the 2013 European Press Prize in the Commentator category.[8] In 2015, Slobodna Dalmacija terminated their contract with Dežulović following a court decision which ordered the newspaper to pay total of 150,000 HRK in damages for an editorial written by Dežulović.[9] In 2017, he signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.[10] He currently publishes weekly columns for N1 and Portal Novosti.

Sources

  1. "Boris Dežulović piše za N1". Večernji list (in Croatian). 30 July 2015. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  2. "Boris Dežulović nasmijao Šibenčane" (in Croatian). 28 February 2011. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  3. Miroslav Cmuk (December 4, 2007). "Booksa.hr dossier - Boris Dežulović" (in Croatian). Retrieved April 3, 2010.
  4. Kurspahić, Kemal (2003). Prime Time Crime: Balkan Media in War and Peace. United States Institute of Peace Press. p. 173-174. ISBN 9781929223381.
  5. "Jedan svijet, jedan Feral: Gorki smijeh slobode ili Viva ludež!". Novi list (in Croatian). 8 February 2015. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  6. "'Christkind' by Boris Dezulovic in Italian". culturenet.hr.
  7. Dežulović, Boris (29 September 2005). "Boris Dežulović - "Jebo sad hiljadu dinara"". mvinfo.hr.
  8. "Boris Dežulović – winner of the European Press Prize 2013". mediaobservatory.net. 17 March 2014. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  9. "Slobodna Dalmacija dala otkaz Borisu Dežuloviću, Ante Tomić i Jurica Pavičić otkazali suradnju Slobodnoj". Index.hr (in Croatian). 13 June 2015.
  10. Derk, Denis (28 March 2017). "Donosi se Deklaracija o zajedničkom jeziku Hrvata, Srba, Bošnjaka i Crnogoraca" [A Declaration on the Common Language of Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins is About to Appear]. Večernji list (in Serbo-Croatian). Zagreb. pp. 6–7. ISSN 0350-5006. Archived from the original on 20 September 2017. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
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