Born 1967 · Croatia
tportal 2026 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Sundial”
Damir Karakaš · 58 when first published
Novel · 119 pages · Nature
AI-generated summary:Early one morning a grandfather leads his grandson through the forest by the sun, and their talk reveals that they are out to find the devil, who, the old man says, looks just like a man.
tportal 2024 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Flood”
Damir Karakaš · 56 when first published
Novel · 91 pages · Coming of age, War, Love
AI-generated summary:A young man driven by dreams and vague artistic ambitions, torn by love and war, looks for a balance between the world he comes from and the one he longs for.
tportal 2020 · Winner
Proslava
Damir Karakaš · 52 when first published
Novel · 116 pages · War, Family, Historical
AI-generated summary:At the end of a war a man from the losing side hides in a forest in Lika, waiting to surrender; four chapters reach ever deeper into the past of three generations of his poor family.
tportal 2017 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Memory of the Forest”
Damir Karakaš · 49 when first published
Novel · 132 pages · Coming of age, Family
AI-generated summary:A boy grows up in a small village in Lika in the 1970s and early 1980s, under strict parents and among friends, villagers and a teacher, discovering the world and a mystery hidden in his own body.