Slobodan Šnajder

The awarding of the  “S. M. Ljubiša” Prize for 2022-23.

Slobodan Šnajder

The panel of judges: Saša Radojčić, Velimir Visković, Dragana Kujović

Publisher: Bora Babić

Moderator: Vladislava Gordić Petković

Slobodan Šnajder (born in Zagreb on July 8,1948) is a renowned, internationally accomplished Croatian playwright, prosaist, theorist and publicist. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb and that in Philosophy and English language, literature and culture. He is the co-founder and editor of the “Prolog” Magazine the special focus of which is the theatre and plays in general. He is also the editor of the “Cekada” publishing house special edition branch  (The Centre for the Cultural Contribution of the Young, Zagreb). He has been publishing his novellas, essays and pieces for the theatre since 1966. He was a columnist for the “Glas Slavonije” News Broadcast ( A Starting Point for Melancholics). He also held the position of a columnist at “Novi List” from Rijeka (Dangerous Liaisons) from 1993 till 2013.

He was the director of the Zagreb Youth Theatre from 2001 until 2004. He is a frequent collaborator for the third programme of the Croation radio frequency. He published his first novel Morendo in 2012. In January, 2010, his dark comedy Enciklopedija izgubljenog vremena was recognized as the best text for the play based on the life and works of Danilo Kiš. This all  ensued from the competition organized by the Montenegrin Royal Theater-Zetski dom from Cetinje which involved all of the former Yugoslav region.

He won the “Gavela” award for drama works (SFRJ) and also the “Držić” award three times. He was awarded an honorary doctorate at the Faculty of Audiovisual Arts (ESRA), seated in Skopje (Macedonia), in 2011.

He received  the regional “Meša Selimović” award (Tuzla) for his novel Doba mjedi in 2016.