Dubravka ugresic biography for kids

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Dubravka Ugrešić was a Yugoslav, Croatian and Dutch writer.

She left Croatia in 1993 and was based in Amsterdam since 1996. She described herself as "post-Yugoslav, transnational, or, even more precisely, postnational writer".

Dubravka Ugrešić earned her degrees in Comparative Literature, Russian Language and Literature at the University of Zagreb, and worked for twenty years at the Institute for Theory of Literature at Zagreb University, successfully pursuing parallel careers as a writer and a literary scholar.

She started writing professionally with screenplays for children’s television programs, as an undergraduate.

In 1971 she published her first book for children Mali plamen, which was awarded a prestigious Croatian literary prize for chDubravka Ugrešić was a Yugoslav, Croatian and Dutc