Similarly, even her most serious comment on the political reality of the Croatia of the 1990s is characterized by her sharply intelligent sense of the absurd. In all her works genres and tones undermine each other and mix in an imaginative blend, reminding the reader always of the interaction of "reality" and the potential worlds of creative writing, of the limited power of the written word to render "truth," and the compelling power of cliché, gossip, and myth to create "reality."
Ugresic was born on 27 March 1949 in Kutina. She studied comparative literature and Russian at the University of Zagreb and then continued to work at the university in the Institute for the Study of Literature, writing scholarly articles, editing anthologies of modern Russian prose and editions of individual writers, and working on a glossary of Russian avant-garde concepts with Alexsandar Flaker, until she resigned in 1993. Her first published works of fiction were novels for children, in which she began to develop the delight in fantasy and humor that characterize her later fiction. She was immediately recognized as an original voice; her earliest volume, Mali plamen (The Little Flame, 1971) was awarded the Grigor Vitez Prize for the best children's book of the year.
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