Ivica Đikić is Bosnian Croat

Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina form one of the three constitutive nations in Bosnia and Herzegovina.There is no precise data regarding Bosnia and Herzegovina's population since the last war. Ethnic cleansing within Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s saw the vast majority of Croats move and take...

 writer and journalist. He is one of the most notable writers from the Balkans

Balkans

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 and one of the most notable writers of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...

. He is critic of Croatian Democratic Union

Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina

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 politics towards Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina form one of the three constitutive nations in Bosnia and Herzegovina.There is no precise data regarding Bosnia and Herzegovina's population since the last war. Ethnic cleansing within Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s saw the vast majority of Croats move and take...

 and their relation to Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...

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Journalist career

He worked as a journalist in for few Croatian newspapers, and he left the most imact on Feral Tribune

Feral Tribune

Feral Tribune was a Croatian political weekly magazine. Based in Split, it first started as a political satire supplement in Nedjeljna Dalmacija before evolving into an independent satirical weekly paper in 1993...

from Split wher he worked in 1996. He started to work as a journalist from his 16, he was also active in Slobodna Dalmacija

Slobodna Dalmacija

Slobodna Dalmacija is a Croatian daily newspaper published in Split.The first issue of Slobodna Dalmacija was published on June 17, 1943 by Tito's Partisans in a cave on Mosor, a mountain near Split, which was occupied by the Italian army during that time. The paper was later published in various...

. From 2001 he edited few Croatian magazines like Novi list

Novi list

Novi list is the oldest Croatian daily newspaper published in Rijeka. It is most read in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County of Croatia....

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Writer career

He published his first novel in 2003 named Cirkus Columbia, published by Feral Tribune

Feral Tribune

Feral Tribune was a Croatian political weekly magazine. Based in Split, it first started as a political satire supplement in Nedjeljna Dalmacija before evolving into an independent satirical weekly paper in 1993...

. He is also awarded with Meša Selimović Award for this novel. The 2010 movie Cirkus Columbia

Cirkus Columbia

Cirkus Columbia is a 2010 drama film starring Miki Manojlović, Mira Furlan, Boris Ler and Jelena Stupljanin. The film is set in the Herzegovina part of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the early 1990s, after the dissolution of Yugoslavia, and slightly before the Yugoslav Wars...

is based on his novel. The novel is set in writer's hometown Tomislavgrad

Tomislavgrad

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, a small town in Herzegovina

Herzegovina

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 in early 1990s

1990s

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, just before Bosnian War

Bosnian War

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. In 2004 Đikić published political biography of former Croatian president Stjepan Mesić

Stjepan Mesić

Stjepan "Stipe" Mesić is a Croatian politician and former President of Croatia. Before his ten-year presidential term between 2000 and 2010 he held the posts of Speaker of the Croatian Parliament , Prime Minister of Croatia , the last President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia , Secretary General...

 named Domovinski obrat (Homeland reversal), published by VBZ from Zagreb

Zagreb

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. In 2007 Đikić wrote his second novel called Ništa sljezove boje (Nothing in Marshmallow Colour), published by Feral Tribune. This new novel is composed of three stories, Zeleni dvorac (Green Castle), Probaj zaspati, molim te (Please, Try to Sleep) and Kao da ništa nije bilo (Like There Was Nothing).

Sources

Slobodna Dalmacija

Slobodna Dalmacija

Slobodna Dalmacija is a Croatian daily newspaper published in Split.The first issue of Slobodna Dalmacija was published on June 17, 1943 by Tito's Partisans in a cave on Mosor, a mountain near Split, which was occupied by the Italian army during that time. The paper was later published in various...

. Ivica Đikić novi glavni urednik "Novosti". October 22, 2010. Jutarnji list

Jutarnji list

Jutarnji list is a daily newspaper in Croatia with a circulation of about 115,000 copies.It was launched in April 1998, becoming the first successful Croatian daily newspaper to appear since the 1950s. It was named after a Zagreb daily that used to circulate before WW2...

. Glavni urednik Novog lista Ivica Đikić podnio ostavku. March 30, 2010.