Born 1974 · Croatia
tportal 2023 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Summers with Marija”
Olja Savičević Ivančević · 48 when first published
Novel · 168 pages · Family, Historical
AI-generated summary:In an old stone house in a small Dalmatian town, a hundred years of memories pass between women who are all named Marija, or Mare, Marijola, Maša or Mara, in episodes set mostly in summer.
tportal 2017 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Singer in the Night”
Olja Savičević Ivančević · 42 when first published
Novel · 146 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Naranča, a successful writer of TV soap operas, sets off from Split through Bosnia and beyond in search of Slavuj, the strange artist she loved until the chaos of their lives drove them apart.
tportal 2011 · Winner
Adio kauboju
Olja Savičević Ivančević · 36 when first published
Novel · 175 pages · Family, Coming of age
AI-generated summary:A small Dalmatian town stands in for the Wild West in a story of a family facing a death, of growing up, of going back to one's roots and of a search for a truth that sets one free.