Igor Mandić
| Igor Mandić | |
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November 20, 1939 Šibenik, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
| Occupation | Journalist, freelance writer |
| Language | Croatian |
| Education | M.A. in Comparative Literature |
| Alma mater | University of Zagreb |
| Period | 1959–present |
| Subject | Literature, music, mass media, feminism, gastronomy, sexuality and erotica |
Igor Mandić (born in Šibenik, November 20, 1939) is a Croatian writer, literary critic, columnist and essayist.
According to literature historian Slobodan Prosperov Novak, Mandić is the most important and the most versatile Croatian newspaper writer of the second half of the 20th century. His polemic texts have marked a Yugoslav publicist epoch of the 1960s and 1970s. Known for his fresh, sharp writing style and contrarian views, he has been dubbed "the master of quarrel".
Igor Mandić was born in Šibenik in 1939. His father, whom Mandić described as a "self-made man", owned a book store that had an important role in intellectual life of the Šibenik area. During the Italian occupation of Dalmatia in World War II, Mandić's father did business with the Italians, all the while secretly helping the Partisan resistance by supplying them with typewriters, a precious commodity during wartime. Nevertheless, the communist authorities nationalized his shop in 1948, leaving the family without its only source of income.
Mandić finished elementary school in Split, where his family had moved after they lost the book store. After graduating from the classical gymnasium in Split in 1958, Mandić studied comparative literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, graduating in 1963. During his university years Mandić began to write literary and music reviews, publishing them in student newspapers, literary magazines and cultural weeklies.
In 1965, after completing his compulsory military service, Mandić settled permanently in Zagreb, working as a part-time literary critic for the Croatian daily Vjesnik. A year later, Mandić got a full-time job in Vjesnik as a literary and music critic, and also a columnist in Vjesnik u srijedu, a popular weekly magazine published by the same company.
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