Stanka Gjurić Explained

Stanka Gjurić
Birth Date:20 January 1956
Birth Place:Čakovec, FNR Yugoslavia
Nationality:Croatian
Occupation:Poet, essayist and filmmaker

Stanka Gjurić (pronounced as /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, Croatian Academy of Science and Art in Diaspora (Basel, Switzerland)[2] and HDS ZAMP. She has also acted in seven feature films.[3]

Biography

Stanka Gjurić was born in Čakovec, FNR Yugoslavia (modern-day Croatia). Today she lives in Zagreb. She has published 20 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] In 2019, on the famous IMDb, Gjurić is on the list of 'Croatian Beautiful, Famous & Sexy Actresses', alongside the sixteen most beautiful Croatian actresses.

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 (1929-1992, 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 (née Cigić) Mišić. Alojzije had two sisters, Marija and Persa. Marija married Ivan Gjurić (Stanka's great-grandfather, i.e. 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

Essays

Opinion piece

Diary prose

Filmography

Acting roles

Directing

Sources

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Društvo hrvatskih književnika.
  2. Web site: HAZUD. 9 March 2014.
  3. Web site: IMDb. IMDb.
  4. Web site: Ubojite misli (2006). IMDb.
  5. Web site: Cinemambiente.
  6. Web site: Curiosities: Interesting thinks about Stanka, like when she started to write.
  7. [:hr:Lekcija o drskosti]
  8. [:hr:Umijeće življenja]
  9. [:hr:Istina o sreći]

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