Mladen Urem
Mladen Urem (born April 16, 1964 in Rijeka ) is a Croatian literary critic , editor and publicist.
Life
Mladen Urem graduated from the Medical Faculty of Rijeka University in Radiology and from the Philosophical Faculty in Croatian Studies.
From 1980 to 1982 singer and guitarist of the new wave rock group Istočni izlaz (Eastern Exit). Represented in the Small Encyclopedia of Croatian Pop and Rock Music (Croatian: Mala enciklopedija hrvatske pop i rock glazbe) published in 1994. Literary editor of the magazine Val (Die Welle, 1985–1989), founder and chief editor of the literary magazine Rival (1988–2000) and the connected book series Biblioteka Val - focus: edition of author's literature (since 1987). Co-founder of the magazine for philology Fluminensia (1989), founder and editor-in-chief of the magazine for culture Sušačka revija (1993–1995) and editor-in-chief of the magazine Dometi (1996).
In the thirteen years of its existence, the Urem-run Rival magazine has published works and articles by 800 authors on topics from art and literature in Croatia and around the world. The magazine featured a variety of global cultural trends and currents of the 1990s, especially writers, who a few years later received respectable awards and accolades (e.g. VS Naipaul - Nobel Prize Winner , and many others), and it was widely regarded as one of the most important magazines in the Croatian area. Other merits of Rival include the publication of works by Croatian authors in English translation and a lively and close collaboration with magazines from the English-speaking world.
Mladen Urem has published the following books: Riječki krug redom (1987), Pogledom u riječ (1987), Janko Polić Kamov: Selected Short Stories and Poems (1997), Dan velikih valova (poetry and prose of the rival generation, with a complete rival Bibliography 1988–2000 and a bibliography from the Val Library for the period 1987 to 2001, in co-authorship with Goran Ušljebrka and Milan Zagorac, 2001), and Pavica Julija Kaftanić (in co-authorship with Boris Zakošek, Lovorka Ruck and Igor Žic , 2005) and Southerly Thoughts and Other Stories (An Anthology of Croatian Short Stories by Ksaver Šandor Gjalski, Janko Polić Kamov, Miroslav Krleža , Vladan Desnica, Ranko Marinković, Slobodan Novak, Ivan Aralica, Ivan Slamnig, Anton Šoljan and Nedjeljko Fabrio; Selection by Mladen Urem, Damir Biličić and Želimir Galjanić, 2005). In October 2006 his book Janko Polić Kamov, Dora Maar i hrvatska avangarda (German: Janko Polić Kamov, Dora Maar and the Croatian avant-garde ) was published.
Urem wrote a large number of essays, studies and research papers on recent Croatian literature, in particular on the life and work of Janko Polić Kamov (* 1886 in Rijeka, † 1910 in Barcelona ), many of which appeared in well-known American and Croatian magazines. In collaboration with Dolores Čikić and Boris Zakošek, he researched the genealogy of Dora Maars (1907–1997) and her father, the architect Josip Marković (* 1874 in Sisak; † 1969 in Paris) for the Paris House for Genealogy Andriveau and published work on this in of the daily Večernji list and in the epilogue to the book by Alicia Dujovne Ortiz Dora Maar - zatočenica pogleda (Zagreb 2004), title of the French edition: Prisonniere du regard.
Employee of the American literary magazines Grand Street (New York), Partisan Review (Boston), World Literature Today (Norman, Oklahoma), Corner (Oakland, California), in which he works by the Croatian authors Janko Polić Kamov, Miroslav Krleža, Ivo Andrić and Ivan Goran Kovačić presented and published. He published the translation of the story Žalost (Mourning) by Janko Polić Kamov in Akzente magazine (Munich) . Collaboration with renowned American writers and editors: Deborah Treisman (* 1971), William Phillips (1907–2002), Robert W. Bingham (1966–1999) and others. Collaboration with respected British historian Lucy Hughes-Hallett .
Urem published almost two hundred texts on Croatian literature and was the editor of as many books. He was several times member of the jury for the award of literary awards Drago Gervais and Nagrada grada Rijeke (Price of Rijeka). Member of the Croatian PEN Center in Zagreb. Urem currently works in the Rijeka State Archives as the head of the reading room, library and archival publications department.
Web links
- Literature by and about Mladen Urem in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Urem, Mladen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Croatian literary critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rijeka , Croatia |