Helena Sablić Tomić

Helena Sablić Tomić was born in 1968 in Osijek, where she attended elementary and high school and graduated from the Faculty of Education. She earned her master’s degree at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb in 1997 with a thesis titled Kratka priča devedesetih – biblioteka i autori časopisa Quorum (The Short Story of the Nineties – Library and Authors of the Quorum Magazine), and in 2001 she defended her doctoral dissertation titled Modeli hrvatske suvremene autobiografske proze (Models of Contemporary Croatian Autobiographical Prose). At the Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek, she teaches literature and culture courses as a full professor with a permanent appointment. She has served as dean of the Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek since 2006. In 2018, she became the first ambassador of the Creative Europe Desk at the Ministry of Culture and Media. She was inducted into the Literature Class of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU) in 2024. She has published 21 books, edited eight, and written scripts for 13 documentary films. She has received 10 national and international awards. She served as president of the Osijek branch of Matica hrvatska from 2003 to 2007. She was on the editorial board of Kolo from 1998 to 2009 and has been on the editorial board of Forum since 2022. She is a member of PEN, the Croatian Writers’ Association, and the Croatian Association of Dramatic Artists. She wrote literary critiques for Vjesnik and currently writes for Croatian Radio’s First Program and the magazine Forum.