Predrag Lucić

Predrag Lucić (12 February 1964 – 10 January 2018, Split) is the author of a gigantic body of work in terms of genre, scope and reach. After studying in Split, in 1984 he started studying theatre and radio directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. In 1989, he staged Miodrag Žalica’s play Mirišu li jorgovani u New Yorku for his graduation thesis at the National Theatre in Tuzla. While preparing the never-published magazine Albatros for the Split publishing house Logos, in 1984 he met Viktor Ivančić, who, as the editor of the satirical supplement Feral in Nedjeljna Dalmacija, invited him to collaborate. With Ivančić’s return from the army in 1989, Viva Ludež was finally reunited, and in 1990 Feral moved to Slobodna Dalmacija, where it remained until March 1993, when, after a failed strike due to the abolition of newspaper independence, the trio Viva Ludež separated and launched Feral Tribune. Predrag Lucić edited a large number of books in the Feral Tribune editions, and in co-authorship with Boris Dežulović he published Greatest Shits – Antologija suvremene hrvatske gluposti (1998) and his first collection of poetry, on over 400 pages, with which he began his parody poetry opus Haiku haiku jebem ti maiku (2003). For the text comedie franchise Aziz ili svadba koja je spasila Zapad, which was staged by Dino Mustafić, Predrag Lucić received the Judita Award in 2017. Istarske barufe directed by Vito Taufer was awarded as the best play at the Fadil Hadžić Days.