Sunčana Škrinjarić: Autobiography From Various Narrative Points of View
Sunčana Škrinjarić: Autobiography From Various Narrative Points of View

Summary/Abstract: Sunčana Škrinjarić was born in Zagreb in 193 L There she completed her primary and secondary education, and graduated from the Teachers’ College. Though she produced her first book in 1946, a collection of self-published poems entitled Suncanice (Sunflowers), it was only in the 1960s that she made her mark as a writer of children’s stories. She also worked for the Children’s Educational Program on Radio Zagreb, and worked on the 1968 Zagreb Puppet Theatre production of the puppet-play Bajka o maslacku (The Tale of the Dandelion). In the 1970s there appeared a series of books: Kaktus bajke (Cactus Tales: stories, 1970), Ljeto u modrom kaputu (Summer in a Blue Coat: stories, 1972), Dva smijeha (Two Smiles: stories, 1973), Zmaj od stakla (The Glass Dragon: stories, 1975), Svastara (,Scribble-Book: stories, poems and plays, 1977), Pisac i vrijeme (The Writer and Time: stories, 1978) and Noc s vodenjakom (A Night With ait Aquarian: stories, 1978). These titles clearly denote an orientation towards a younger audience, either by way of genre (tales) or through other associated meanings (for example, a glass dragon suggests a toy, and a child jots down various matters of ‘life and death’ in a scribble-book).

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