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Stanka Gjurić (pronounced [Stanka d͡ʑurit͡ɕ]; born 20 January 1956) is a Croatian poet,[1] essayist, actress, filmmaker and ex model. She is a member of the Croatian Writers' Association and Croatian Academy of Science and Art in Diaspora (Basel, Switzerland).[2] She has also acted in seven feature films.[3]

Stanka Gjurić
Born	(1956-01-20) 20 January 1956 (age 66) Čakovec, FNR Yugoslavia
Occupation	Poet, essayist and filmmaker
Nationality	Croatian

Biography

Stanka Gjurić was born in Čakovec, FNR Yugoslavia (modern-day Croatia). Today she lives in Zagreb. She has published nineteen books (mainly poems, philosophical and lyrical essays). Since 2006 has also worked as a film maker, gaining worldwide acclaim with her short film Ubojite misli (Battle Thoughts).[4] Her short films have been screened in film festivals in France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, India, Egypt, and Switzerland, and she has won five awards.[5]

Family

Stanka's mother Stanka, aka Lela (born Kopjar, 1934-2018, Čakovec), worked as a typist at the Municipal Court in Čakovec, while her father, Dragan Gjurić (1929-2002, Čakovec), was the director of accounting at the G.K. "Međimurje". Stanka is a unit, but his father has two older half-brothers, Tomislav (born in 1949) and Roman (born in 1952). By the way, Stanka's distant cousin is Alojzije Mišić, the bishop of Mostar-Duvno, and the apostolic administrator of Trebinje-Mrkan from 1912 until his death in 1942. Alojzije (Stjepan) Mišić's parents were Mate and Marija (nee Cigić) Mišić. Alojzije had two sisters, Marija and Persa. Marija married Ivan Gjurić (Stanka's great-grandfather, ie the father of her grandfather Andrija), who with Marija, in addition to Andrija, had three other children (Antun, Ljudevit and Viktorija). Alojzije Mišić's sister, Persa, was a nun. [6]

Poetry

• Sedmi pečat, 1981
• Treći čin, 1983
• Dječak, 1986
• Ključarev san, 1990
• Il sogno del guardiano, 1994
• Protuotrov ili njegovanje ludila, 1994
• Protuotrov ili njegovanje ludila, 1998
• Sve što sja, 2005
• Kažnjavalac dobrih navika, 2005
• Bešćutnost akvarela, 2008
• Protuotrov ili njegovanje ludila/Contravveleno o coltivazione della follia, 2017
• Nepremostiva, 2020

Essays

• Lekcija o drskosti, 2000[7]
• Umijeće življenja, 2015[8]
• Kroz Eros i Thanatos, 2017
• Unveiling reality, 2018
• Istina o sreći, 2018[9]

Opinion piece

• Otpovijed, 2014
• Otpovijed (II dio), 2015

Diary prose

• Dnevnik vodonoše/The Diary of an Aquarian, 2010

Filmography

Acting roles

• That Summer of White Roses, as White Rose(1989)
• Vjetar u mreži, as A Woman in a Dream (1989)
• Školjka šumi, as Barmaid (1991)
• Vrijeme za, as Daughter in Law (1992)
• Tu, as Nurse (2003)
• Kad zvoni?, as Nurse (2005)
• S druge strane, as The old man's daughter (2016)
• Koja je ovo država! as Faruk's wife Enisa (2018)
• Link as Stanka Gjurić (2021)

Directing

• Battle Thoughts (Ubojite misli, 2006) - short
• Sleeping and dreaming (Spavanje i sanjanje, 2006) - short
• Exhibitionist (Susret s egzibicionistom, 2006) - short
• Passion for book has not disappeared (Strast za knjigom nije nestala, 2007) - short
• Eleven (Jedanaest, 2007) - short
• Happy boat (Sretan brod, 2007) - short
• Courtyard window (Dvorišni prozor, 2007) - short
• Luka's prophecy (Lukino proročanstvo, 2007) - short
• Alexandrian poets (Aleksandrijski pjesnici, 2008) - short
• The sound of life (Zvuci života, 2008) - short
• Bast (2009) - short
• Bon Appétit!(Dobar tek!, 2009) - short
• Noon Shot (Zagrebačko podne, 2009) - short
• Lullaby (Uspavanka,2010) - short
• Immoral Manual (Nemoralna čitanka, 2013) - short
• Lioncity (Lavograd, 2015) - short
• Perfect Tattoo (2016) - short
• Rhythm (Ritam, 2019) - short
• Once upon a time (Jednom davno, 2020) - short
• Link (2021) - short
• Bread (Kruh, 2022) - short
• Lust and the heart (O požudi i srcu, 2022) - short
• Son of a Prophetess (Vračarin sin, 2022) - short

References

Sources

• Croatian Writers' Association
• Stanka Gjurić at IMDb
• Hrvatski audio vizualni centar
• The Official Site

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