Savičević Ivančević Olja: Nasmijati psa i sedam novih priča

Olja Savičević Ivančević: Making a dog laugh and seven new stories

Looking at a child's face and imagining what it will look like one day is a favorite sport of all parents. Conversely, it is easy to see a young person in a mature face. Well, the collection Nasmijati psa is that face of a child, the debut in which Olje Savičević Ivančević's author's work is outlined. This edition also contains seven new stories that show that the debut was written so powerfully and maturely that the new stories of the proven stylist of our literature are in no way different. Make a dog laugh is a collection of stories that still captures attention 15 years after its first publication. A collection that awaits new readers and reminds old ones of its generosity and magic. Mediterranean melancholy, camp-aesthetics, disdain for authority and rebellion, urban that roars in the ears, the world as an adventure, swollen with curiosity and carnality, then passages of nostalgia and fog of memory, impudence that grows with optimism, flashy sentences and discreet details and a hundred other wonders make these young stories mature and already somewhat classic, because classic is always young. —Kruno Lokotar

Olja Savičević Ivančević is a writer and poet, born in 1974 in Split. Her books have been translated into twelve countries, and excerpts from her prose and poems have been translated into thirty languages. It has been included in numerous domestic and foreign selections and anthologies. She was awarded the Prozac award for the manuscript Make a dog laugh, the winner of the first Ranko Marinkovic Večernji list award for a short story and the Kiklop award for the poetry collection House Rules. The novel Adio kauboju was awarded the T-portal award for the best novel, as well as the Slobodna Dalmacija award for the art of Jura Kaštelan, and a theater play of the same name was staged based on it. The novel The Singer in the Night was awarded with the Libar za vajk awards of the Pula Book Fair and the English PEN Award. She is the winner of the regional award of the Macedonian festival Druga prikazna. Short feature films were made based on several of her stories, comics were drawn, and several plays for children were staged based on award-winning drama texts. She lives and works as a freelance writer on the route Zagreb—Split—Korčula. Works: Collections of poems It will be terrible when I grow up (1988), Eternal children (1993), Women's letter (1999), Puzzlerojc (2005), House rules (2007), Mamasafari (and other things) (2012), Wild and yours (2020); storybook Make the dog laugh (2006); novels Adio cowboy (2010) and Singer in the night (2016); picture books Adrijana has returned created in collaboration with Imelda Ramović and Sporki Špiro and Disobedient Tonka (2017) and Sami na cilome svita (2020) created in collaboration with Svjetlan Junaković.