Milan Rakovac
Milan Rakovac was born in 1939 in Rakovci, Croatia. Educated in Pula, Zagreb and Split, a former member of the navy, a former editor of Glas Istre, he gradually devoted himself fully to literature. His Izabrana djela in four volumes summarise Istria from the inside, through language, text, tradition and memory: book one features verses, book two the famous novel Riva i druži, book three continues with another novel (La Triestina), book four returns to biographism via island and mountain lucidariuses. As Aljoša Pužar said, Rakovac “matured ideologically on the crossroads of inherited Istrian folk and communist antifascism, of liberal democratic values and multiculturalism, with anarchist twists and a critique of the neoliberal paradigm, remaining a true advocate of intercultural dialogue.”
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