Miljenko Jergović
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Miljenko Jergović (born 1966 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a prose writer, he is a Bosnian Croat. Jergović currently lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.
Jergović has established himself as a writer in both Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, and his stories and novels have been translated into more than 20 languages. Critics have acclaimed his capability to turn every topic into a story without changing it at all, hence preserving its internal logic.[citation needed]
His more acclaimed works include his debut Opservatorija Varšava (Warsaw Opservatory, 1988); Hauzmajstor Šulc (Schultz the Repairman, 2000), both of them poetry works; the novels Sarajevski marlboro (Sarajevo Marlboro, 1994) and the drama Kažeš, anđeo (You say it's an angel, 2000). Since Jergović is also a journalist, he has published a collection of his articles in the acclaimed Historijska čitanka (A reader in history, 1996).
His most recent work, Rabija i sedam meleka (Rabija and seven angels), became a bestseller in Bosnia and Herezgovina only few days after it was published.
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