Born 1961 · Croatia
tportal 2021 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Travelling Theatre”
Zoran Ferić · 59 when first published
Novel · 475 pages · Family, Historical, War
AI-generated summary:A family saga of the 20th century and its three wars begins in the 1920s, when the nurse Ivka Benceković meets the surgeon Benjamin Bernstein, a Jewish émigré who fled Petrograd after the October Revolution.
tportal 2016 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“In Solitude by the Sea”
Zoran Ferić · 54 when first published
Novel · 341 pages · Love, Coming of age
AI-generated summary:On the island of Rab, a few local lads and small-town girls, Luka, Boris, Gavran, Škembo, Lena and Alka, are followed from hormone-charged adolescence to the tired moments when they begin to take stock of their lives.
tportal 2012 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Mayan Calendar”
Zoran Ferić · 50 when first published
Novel · 603 pages · Coming of age, Love
AI-generated summary:On a reunion voyage from Opatija to Zadar, retired classmates repeat their school-leaving trip, and the gynaecologist Tihomir Romar looks back on growing up in Zagreb, his friendships, losses, a fatal love and his fear of ageing.