Evelina Rudan

Evelina Rudan was born in Pula in 1971. She lives in Zagreb. She published the following poetry collections:”Sve ča mi rabi ovega prolića” (2000), “Posljednja topla noć” (2002, in collaboration with Slađana Lipovec and Denis Peričić), “Uvjerljiv vrt” (“Convincing Garden”) in an electronic format (translated by Hana Dada Banak, 2003), “Breki i ćuki” (2008), “Pristojne ptice” (2008), and “Smiljko i ja si mahnemo” (2020). She also published the children’s picture book “Kraljevićev san” (2010), in collaboration with the illustrator Sven Nemet. For her manuscript “Breki i ćuki”, she won the “Drago Gervais Award” in 2007, and for her poetry collection, “Smiljko i ja si mahnemo”, she received the Fran Galović Award in 2020, along with other literary awards, including the “Ivan Goran Kovačić” award, “the HAZU Award for Literature”, the “Tin Ujević Award”, and the “Drago Gervais Award”. Her poetry has been translated into Slovenian, Czech, English, German, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and Dutch. She teaches at the Department of Croatian Studies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. For her scholarly book “Vile s Učke. Žanr, kontekst, izvedba i nadnaravna bića predaja” (2016), she received the Faculty Award from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in 2017.