Nives Opačić

Nives Opačić was born in 1944 in Vukovar. She graduated in 1968 from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, majoring in Yugoslav languages and literatures and comparative literature, with Czech language and literature as a supplementary subject. In 1973, she earned her master’s degree at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb with the thesis Red riječi u djelima suvremenih hrvatskih pisaca (The Order of Words in the Works of Contemporary Croatian Writers). From 1974 to 2004, she taught courses on the culture of speaking, reading, and writing to Croatian studies students at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. Between 1972 and 1974, she worked as a contract lecturer of Croatian at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague, and from 1979 to 1981 at the University of Rome. She conducts workshops for translators of various fields (literary and specialized) and for many years taught Croatian as a second and foreign language to international students (both in Zagreb and abroad). In 1972, she founded the Croatian Society of Proofreaders (for which she served two terms as president). Her scholarly and professional works have been published in journals such as Jezik, Filologija, Radovi Zavoda za slavensku filologiju, and Rasprave Instituta za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, as well as in conference proceedings of the Society for Applied Linguistics and Days of Philology in Rijeka. She published around forty language advice pieces in Vjesnik and several hundred on educational programs of Croatian Radio and Television. She also produced two half-hour radio series on Croatian Catholic Radio: the language-focused Tu, pokraj nas (Here, Beside Us) and Poetski putopis (Poetic Travelogue) on Croatian literature. She has authored or coauthored more than 20 books.