4miro gavran novels in 4 languages

It is our pleasure to invite
you to the promotion of
4 MIRO
GAVRAN
NOVELS IN 4
LANGUAGES
GERMAN, CHINESE, ENGLISH AND SPANISH
62nd Frankfurt International Book Fair
Friday, October 8, 2010 at 11 a.m.
Croatian Exhibition Stand, Hall No 5.0 - E969
speakers at the promotion
ANTJE CONTIUS
S. Fischer/Traduki, Berlin
MARIA SEIFERT
Seifert Verlag, Vienna
EUGENIA EHGARTNER
Leykam international, Zagreb
MIRO GAVRAN
author, Zagreb
PONTIUS PILATE
Seifert Verlag, Vienna, Austria
Translated into German by: Klaus Detlef Olof
The intriguing confession of the man who sentenced Jesus Christ to death. Following Pilate’s life from his early
youth up to ten years after Christ’s crucifixion, the author speaks out about the moral dilemmas and lives of
people without a spiritual footing.
HOW WE BROKE OUR LEGS
World Affairs Press, Beijing, China
Translated into Chinese by: Kewein Yan
With a wealth of warmth and humour, this novel describes four generations of a quirky Croatian family. We
encounter an unexpected chronicle of times not so very
long ago that depicts contemporary Croatia and the
world-view of its people.
THE ONLY WITNESS TO BEAUTY
ITG, Zagreb, Croatia
Translated into English by: Nina H. Kay-Antoljak
A love story that unfolds in Zagreb and on the island
of Malta in the present day. The hero is a lonely fortyyear-old in love with a mysterious young woman. Playing with the truth and lies interweaved in life, this novel
also employs diverse story-telling perspectives and offers
unforgettable reading pleasure.
FORGOTTEN SON
RIL EDITORES, Santiago de Chile, Chile
Translated into Spanish by: Željka Lovrenčić
The story of a slightly mentally challenged young man
who, after having spent sixteen years at a special school,
returns to his family. Neither his brother and sister nor
the family’s neighbours had known of his existence. Removed from the only world he had known, he has difficulty in adapting to his new environment. He starts to
keep a diary in which, with humour and warm emotion,
he uncovers both himself and the people around him.
MIRO GAVRAN (1961) is a contemporary Croatian
writer whose works have been translated into 32 languages. His novels have gone through more than 150
different editions at home and abroad. He has written
nine novels: FORGOTTEN SON, HOW WE BROKE
OUR LEGS, CLARA, MARGITA, JUDITH, JOHN
THE BAPTIST, PONTIUS PILATE, THE ONLY
WITNESS TO BEAUTY, and KAFKA’S FRIEND.
He is also a successful playwright and his plays have
had more than 200 theatre first-nights and have been
seen by more than two million theatre-goers worldwide.
Characteristic to all his texts are: a strong story, emotional characters and a positive stance towards life. His
themes frequently relate to male-female relations, and
family and political manipulation. He is the only living
author in Europe to have had a theatre festival dedicated
to their works – the GAVRANFEST founded in Slovakia in 2003. He is so popular at home that his readers
set up his FAN CLUB in Croatia some ten years ago. He
has received some twenty awards in Croatia and abroad
including THE EUROPEAN CIRCLE AWARD given
for affirmation of European values in literary work, and
the 1999 CENTRAL EUROPEAN TIME LITERARY AWARD for the year’s best author in the region.
He lives in Zagreb as a professional writer.
HOW WE BROKE
OUR LEGS,
in Chinese
PONTIUS PILATE,
in German
Miro Gavran
FORGOTTEN SON,
in Spanish
el HIJO OLVIDADO
Miro gavran
El hijo olvidado
O EL ANGEL DE OMORINA
MIRO GAVRAN nació en el año
1961. Sus obras han sido traducidas
veinticinco idiomas. Entre sus novelas encontramos El hijo olvidado
(Zaboravljeni sin) 1989, Como nos
quebramos los pies (Kako smo lomili
noge) 1995, Clara (Klara) 1997,
Judita 2001, Juan Bautista (Ivan
Krstitelj) 2002, Poncio Pilatos 2004,
y el libro de cuentos Pequeña gente
rara (Mali neobični ljudi). También
escribe para los niños y la juventud
(Días felices - Sretni dani, Como
papá conquistó a mamá – Kako je
tata osvojio mamu), Trata de olvidar
– Pokušaj zaboraviti) etc. Sus textos
más importantes de teatro son: La
Antígona de Creont (Kreontova
Antigona), Cuando se muere el actor
(Kad umire glumac), La noche de los
Dioses (Noč bogova)… Ha ganado
muchos premios literarios y teatrales por su obra. El festival de teatro
llamado GAVRANFEST que tiene
lugar en Eslovaquia y donde se dan
sólo las obras de Miro Gavran, es el
primer festival en Europa dedicado
a la obra de un escritor vivo. Miro
Gavran vive en Zagreb y es escritor
profesional.
THE ONLY WITNESS
TO BEAUTY,
in English