Born 1979 · Croatia
tportal 2024 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“A Case of One's Own Peril”
Kristian Novak · 44 when first published
Novel · 276 pages · Crime
AI-generated summary:A young secondary-school teacher takes over the drama group with a demanding method, and then a young traffic policeman is found dead in town, and everything changes.
tportal 2017 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“A Gypsy, but the Most Beautiful”
Kristian Novak · 37 when first published
Novel · 392 pages · Love, Crime
AI-generated summary:In two villages on Croatia's northern border, one Croatian and one Roma, a secret and forbidden love, long silences and two murders unfold, told in four voices.
tportal 2014 · Winner
Črna mati zemla
Kristian Novak · 34 when first published
Novel · 293 pages
AI-generated summary:A successful young writer who has long woven his memories from scraps of other people's stories decides to face what really happened in the village of his childhood, events he has buried deep.