Dubravka Oraić Tolić Explained

Dubravka Oraić Tolić (born in Slavonski Brod, on 1 August 1943) is a Croatian poet, essayist, translator, and theorist of literature and culture.[1]

Biography

Dubravka Oraić Tolić went to primary school in the village of Donji Andrijevci near Slavonski Brod,[2] where she had met her future husband . She studied Philosophy and Russian language with literature in Zagreb (1962–1966) and Vienna (1967–1969). She earned her Master’s Degree with a thesis about a landscape in the opus of A. G. Matoš and her Doctorate Degree with a thesis on quotations in literature and culture.

From 1971 to 1998 she worked at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences’ Department of Literary Studies. She was a tenured professor of literary theory and culture until she retired in 2014.[3] She taught as a guest professor at the University of München (1992) and Göttingen (2007). She took part in scientific gatherings locally and abroad (Amsterdam, Bad Urach, Berlin, Bremen, Budapest, Heidelberg, Jena, Pecs, Petrograd, Rovereto, Veszprém).

In collaboration with, she edited libraries The critical portraits of Croatian slavists and The encyclopedia of Croatian literature and also the Library L of the Institute of Literary Studies of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences with and Viktor Žmegač.[4] [5] She edited a series of almanacs with from the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest,[6] collaborated on project The thesaurus of the Russian avantgarde and the Zagreb thesaurus of 20th-century culture,[7] and has published around 150 scientific and professional papers in the theory of culture and Croatian and Russian literature.

She is a full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU),[8] a member of the Croatian Writers Society,[9] member of the Croatian Centre P. E. N., and a professor emeritus and vice president of the Matica hrvatska[10] [11] (where she also edited the Hrvatska revija magazine from 2012 to 2021). She became the editor-in-chief of, a monthly publication of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, in 2022.[12]

Personal life

She is the mother of Iva Tolić, a biophysicist, academic, and university professor.[13]

Publications

Books

Editing

Translations

Awards and acknowledgments

Notes and References

  1. Web site: dr.sc. Dubravka Oraić Tolić, red. prof. . University of Zagreb - Faculty of Philosophy . 1 November 2023.
  2. https://repozitorij.unisb.hr/islandora/object/unisb:76 Lexicon of writers from Slavonski Brod
  3. Web site: dr.sc. Dubravka Oraić-Tolić, red. prof. (u mirovini) Rusistika . University of Zagreb - Faculty of Philosophy . 1 November 2023 . hr.
  4. Web site: Oraić Tolić, Dubravka Hrvatska enciklopedija . www.enciklopedija.hr.
  5. https://katalog.kgz.hr/pagesResults/bibliografskiZapis.aspx?&currentPage=1&searchById=1&sort=0&spid0=1&spv0=PISCI+-+LEKSIKON&xm0=1&selectedId=4001398 Lexicon of Croatian writers
  6. Szabó, Ernő Kulcsár; Tolić, Dubravka Oraić; Kékesi, Zoltán; Kelemen, Pál (2008). Kultur in Reflexion: Beiträge zur Geschichte der mitteleuropäischen Literaturwissenschaften (in German). Braumüller. ISBN 978-3-7003-1642-8.
  7. Nisula, Dasha C. (2008). "Review of American Scream; Palindrome Apocalypse". The Slavic and East European Journal. 52 (1): 150–151. ISSN 0037-6752
  8. Web site: Oraić Tolić Dubravka – HAZU . 1 November 2023 . Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
  9. Web site: Dubravka Oraić Tolić . Society of Croatian Writers . 1 November 2023.
  10. Web site: Authors - Dubravka Oraić Tolić . 1 November 2023 . www.matica.hr . Matica hrvatska.
  11. Web site: President Milanović Meets with Matica Hrvatska Leadership . 2023-11-02 . President of the Republic of Croatia - Zoran Milanović . en-US.
  12. Web site: Oraić Tolić . Dubravka . God. 61 (2022), knj. 94, br. 1-3 (siječanj-ožujak) / glavna i odgovorna urednica Dubravka Oraić Tolić . 2023-11-02 . dizbi.hazu.hr . hr.
  13. Web site: IVA TOLIĆ: ‘Kad ste znanstvenik, nikoga ne zanima vaš spol, samo ideje i otkrića’ . . 5 February 2023 . IVA TOLIĆ: 'When you are a scientist, nobody cares about your gender, only ideas and discoveries' . hr . 3 November 2023.
  14. Web site: Past Recipients of the Heldt Prize . Association for Women in Slavic Studies . 2 November 2023.
  15. Vidan . Aida . 2007 . Review of American Scream: Palindrome Apocalypse, Dubravka Oraić Tolić, Sonja Bašić . World Literature Today . 81 . 4 . 74–75 . 40159508 . 0196-3570.
  16. Baković . Lidija . 2009 . Review of Kultur in Reflexion. Beiträge zur Geschichte der mitteleuropäischen Literaturwissenschaften. Wiener Arbeiten zur Literatur 24 . Modern Austrian Literature . 42 . 4 . 116–118 . 24649755 . 0026-7503.

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