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POETESS
Stanka Gjurić 
start to write poems when she was nine years old. She was
born in Čakovec (north of Croatia),
and now she lives and works in Zagreb.
She has received numerous literary awards for her poetry.
Gjurić is a member of the Croatian Writers' Association, and Croatian
Independent Artists Association
and has achieved the status of a professional writer.
Her poems have been published in all major literary
periodicals and twenty anthologies. In 1988. her works were printed in American Anthology of World Love poems:
Love's
greatest Treasures: Today's Poets Speak from the heart, published by the American Poetry Association in Santa
Cruz, California.
Her poems were translated to English, Italian and Lithuanian and also
published in Italian and Lithuanian Anthology.
To date she has published ten books (the last one is bilinguale - Croatian-English)
The
Seventh Seal (1981)
The Third Act (1983)
A boy (1986)
The turn-key's Dream (1990)
The Antidote or Fostering insanity (1994 and 1998)
The lesson of Impudence
(essay's) (2000)
All
that Glitters (2005)
Punisher
of good Habits (2005)
Emotionless of Aquarelle (2008)
Dnevnik vodonoše/The Diary of An
Aquarian (2010)
Stanka also published an AUDIO CASSETTE (Croatia Records 1999) on
which she recites her lines.
* In October 2005, in International literary competition in Italy, with
title Tradition
of my country, which organized Association Famiglia
Veneta, she has been announced as one of the conqueror of
competition, for her poem named "To a white fowers" .
* In 2006 Gjuric has
been invited to The Third Festival "Woman
creators of the two seas, the Mediterranean and the Black
Sea" organized by the UNESCO’s Centre for women and peace . The main
subject was Women and Tradition. Stanka took part the first day of the
festival, in the panel discussion on the issue of ‘Female characters in
contemporary culture’ which deals with the examination of stereotypes in
literature, soaps, radio and television programmes, etc.
* In 2007 Stanka won a
ZVONIMIR GOLOB poetry prize.
* In 2008 she receive a prize for her poem in XXIV
International poetry Festival NOSSIDE PRIZE in
Reggio Calabria
* In 2010 Croatian
Writters' Association sent Stanka Gjuric to International Poetry Festival in
Lithuania (Utena county)
* * *
As the author's spectrum of interest is rather broad,
besides modeling she has tried her skills as an actress and acted in four
feature films.
They were:
That
Summer of White Roses (in english language with Rod
Steiger, Tom Conti and Susan George), directed by Rajko Grlić
The
Shell Roars, directed by Miro Međimorec
The right time directed by Oja Kodar
Here directed by Zrinko Ogresta
and TV series:
When is ringing, directed by Vlatka Vorkapić
Stanka also workd on Croatian Independent TV, and Croatian
National Televizion in Show's Good afternoon, TV Courtroom and Metropolis.
She has worked with many journals: Tren,
Svijet, Glorija, Slobodna Dalmacija, Hrvatsko slovo, Nedjeljna Dalmacija
and Večernji list where
she has an advisory column. For some of them Stanka also wrote literary
essays and essays on books.
* * *
In 2006 Stanka started to make short films
as indipendent filmmaker who made her films by the and of self (directing,
scriptwriting, photography, editing...)
SHORT FILMS (Film Festivals)
* In October
'06. in "Festival of the First" in
Zagreb Stanka's short movie "Ubojite misli" (on topic LANDMINES),
werw selected to bee exhibit in Gallery
Nova.
* From21 - 23
December she participate on the International film Festival for small and
independent film and video productions
"Film Front" in
Novi Sad (Serbia), where she win a Special jury award for
her short film "Sleeping and dreaming".
* In March
'07. she participate in Unesco - Paris DigiArtsAward Audio-vizual work
dedicated to Zagreb.
* From 01 to
09th June 2007. her film "Ubojite misli" ("Battle
Thoughts") were selected for Internation Film Festival AluCine Toronto
(Canada), where she win a Honorable
Mention Award
* Stanka
Gjuric winn a 1st prize for
her short film "Spavanje i sanjanje" ("Sleeping and
Dreaming") in International Video festival Electric rats dream video dreams in
Celje, Slovenia (June '07).
* In the same month the same film "Ubojite misli" were
selected for International Festival of short film Mostar (Bosnia and
Herzegovina), where Stanka also win
a 1st prize
* Stanka is
also a winner of
“The Prophecy” Entry Level contest, with her short film "Eleven" in
Filmaka online competition in Los
Angeles (USA)
* In October
’07. Stanka’s short film “Ubojite misli” (“Battle Thoughts”) are selected for
International Environmental Film Festival Cinemambiente
in Torino (Italy)
* Her short
film “Ubojite misli” (Battle thoughts”) was
also selected for International CineEco Enviromental
Film Festival in Seia (Portugal),
in October ’07.
* From
22.10.-11.11. Stanka was invited to participate in “Amala”
Media and Light arts - artist workshop and cultural event in Alexandria
(Egypt) where she show her two short films and instalation in exhibitions
opened in Goethe Insitute
and Atelier of Alexandria.
* In January
2008 Stanka's film "Ubojite misli" were selected for International MedAward,
Environmental Film Festival in Spain
*
"Ubojite misli" were also selected for International Film Festival EcoFilms Rodos (June 2008)
* "Ubojite
misli" were also invited to be presented in La Casa
Encendida in Madrid (Spain),
and in Lausanne Festival
Open Aier de Mon Repos, in July 2008
* “Ubojite
misli” were selected for program “Focus” in International Short film Festival
Silhouette
in Paris (France) in September 2008
* Stanka’s
short film “The Sound of Life” was selected for program “Aquascope” in Film
Festival Voices from the Waters
in Bangalore (India) in September 2008, for which Festival (the main program)
was also selected a film “Dessica” , a short film based on the idea of a US
scientist David Madasci, which Gjuric made during her last year stay at the
culturel event“Media and light
Arts” in Alexandria (Egypt).
* From 24 October till 13th November 2009 Stanka participate with seven
artists (painters, photographers, performers and videasts) from four
continents, in AMALA Media and Light Arts, in Alexandria (Egipt). The exibition of their
works created in Egypt was
organized in Goethe
Institute in Alexandria.
* * *
Many literate critics and writers like
Nikola Milićević, Vlado Gotovac, Zlatko Tomičić, Božidar
Petrač, Ivan Tolj, Igor Mandić, Alojz Majetić, Milivoj Slaviček, Tonko
Maroević, Mladen Machiedo, Nedjeljko Mihanović, Arsen Dedić, Sead Begović, etc. have commented on Stanka's
poetry.
Here is something from what some of tham said:
"Even now chips are real, devoted citations in lyrical
transformations. Some of the collage survives. Exactly this is painful
because it reveals the weak and unprotected inner side that remains
somnolent. Pure cruelty thrives revealing its presence and its moves with the
strength and grief of disablement. The lyricism therefore seems even more
unreal and its persistence is transforming into a discreet charm of bravery
which would, without affliction, bring cynicism."
(Vlado Gotovac)
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"The world that this poet expresses stems mostly from a tragic feeling
of life consisting of eternal human quest for something decent enough to
fulfill a thirsty human soul."
(Nikola Milićević)
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"In her fourth book of poetry Stanka Gjurić speaks even more
consistently of existential traumatism, of "being thrown into the
world", into the very center of horror vacui in which violently grown up
children struggle. Gjurić perceives the world as if it had been created by
someone else, someone with a diabolic intention and imagination. This world
is set and so unalterable that even an escape to childhood or to the
postponent of adulthood cannot be realized.
Internal solitude is definitely incurable. Possible intimacy, no matter how
desired, cannot be reached because other people are only passers-by."
(Alojz Majetić)
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"Writing out her view of the world Stanka Gjurić steers her verses off
the current literary mainstream. The view is so unusual, deprived of the
reflex of contemporaneity, coarseness and evil and fully exclusive to the
so-called "world issues".
(Borivoj Radaković)
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"The poet does not only live love, she does not only question it, but
she constantly analyses and interprets is as wel. For a poet, more bodily
love is insufficient. It is in the mind where it all takes place, it is both
the spring and the mouth of every yearning and every experience. This is why
her spirits is the mirror of her body in which she observes all that is
happening and this is as interesting as the jungles of the Amazon or
forgotten vaileys of Ceylon, the unknown races and beasts or plants that
haunted H. Blavatsky as well."
(Zlatko Tomičić)
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BIOGRAFIA (SUCCINTA) IN
ITALIANO
Stanka Gjurić e nata a Čakovec nella Croazia settentrionale. Da alcuni anni
vive a Zagabria, collabora a giornali (in qualche rubrica fissa) e riviste
letterarie. Ha pubblicato finora
otto sillogi poetiche in croato: “Il settimo sigillo”, “Terzo atto”, “Il
faneiullo”, “Il sogno del tesoriere”, “Contraveleno o coltivazione della
follia”, "Tutto che brilla", "Punitore di buono
abitudine", audio cassetta di poesia erotica, e un libro di saggi: “La
lezione sulla sfacciataggine”.
Le sono stati conferiti cinque premi nazionali per la poesia, lei e anche
Vincitrice di Premio Nosside
in 2008 (Reggio Calabria, Italia). Figura in varie Antologie nazionali e
straniere, compresane una americana di poesia universale edita a Santa Cruz
in California (88.).
E anche attrice cinematografica (tra i suoi ruoli quello nel “L'estate
delle Rose Bianche” di Grlić).
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