Savičević Ivančević Olja: Moj prijatelj Mačkodlak

Olja Savičević Ivančević, Lucija Mrzljak: My Friend Cat-Hair

This is a story about the unusual friendship between a girl and Cat-Hair. Little Jele, whom her father left in the village with her great-aunt, who lives alone surrounded by cats, one afternoon decides to sneak off to the hospital to visit her mother, and she is accompanied by an unusual, shaggy friend, Cathair, whom no one knows who he is or where he comes from.

Cathair is a monster - the one among us who is not We and only because of that creates irrational fears. A girl who recognizes the monster as a friend embarks with him on an important life adventure of facing the real world and truly terrifying phenomena. Imagination wins over reality, because that is where art is stronger than life, a rare place where we can fix the world - show how it should be.

Olja Savičević Ivančević is a writer and poet, born in 1974 in Split.

Her books have been translated and published in thirteen countries, and excerpts from prose and poems have been translated into thirty languages. She has been included in numerous domestic and foreign selections and anthologies.

For the manuscript "Smijati psa" she was awarded Prozac, she won the first Ranko Marinković Večernji list award for a short story and the Kiklop award for the poetry collection "House Rules".

The novel "Adio cowboy" was awarded the T-portal award for the best novel, the Slobodna Dalmacija award for the art of Jure Kaštelan and the French Prix du premiere for the best novel a foreign novel in 2020. Based on this novel, a theater play of the same name was staged.

The novel "Singer in the Night" was awarded the Libar Prize for Vaik of the Pula Book Fair and the English PEN Award.

It won the main prize of the Macedonian Second Screening Festival.  The Risto Ratković Regional Poetry Award was awarded to her for the collection of poetry "Wild and Yours".

Several of her stories were made into short feature films, a comic book was drawn, and several children's plays were staged based on award-winning drama texts.

She lives and works in Zagreb.

Books:

Poem collections 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), Standard life, collected prose poems (2021); story books Make a Dog Laugh (2006) and Make a Dog Laugh and Seven New Stories (2020);

novels Farewell to the Cowboy (2010) and Singer in the Night (2016); picture books Šporki Špiro and Disobedient Tonka (2017), Adriana is back (2019), Sami na cilome svita (2020), In love with the whole world (2021) and "My Friend the Cat" (2021).