| Julijana Matanović | |
| Birth Date: | 6 April 1959 |
| Birth Place: | Gradačac, FPR Yugoslavia |
| Occupation: | Short story writer, novelist and scholar |
| Nationality: | Croatian |
| Alma Mater: | University of Osijek University of Zagreb |
| Period: | 1986 - present |
Julijana Matanović (born 6 April 1959) is a Bosnian Croat short story writer and novelist. She is also a professor at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, where she teaches contemporary Croatian literature.[1]
She was born in Gradačac, went to primary school in Đurđenovac and then on to high school in Našice, before enrolling at University of Osijek where she earned a degree in Yugoslav languages and literature in 1982.[2] In 1998 she earned her doctorate at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb with a thesis called Povijesni roman u hrvatskoj književnosti XX. stoljeća (English: The [[historical novel]] in 20th-century [[Croatian literature]]).[2]
Her works have been translated into German, Hungarian, Serbian and Slovenian.