Jasna Horvat (27 December 1966) is a Croatian writer, cultural theorist and professor at the University of Osijek. She writes novels, essays and books for children and youth as well as academic works. Most of her works have been assessed as Oulipian. Biography Jasna Horvat was on born 27 December 1966 in Osijek. She studied at the Faculty of Economics, University of Osijek, where she graduated (1989) and was employed as an assistant at the Department of Cybernetics, Mathematics and Statistics (1990). Following the completion of her postgraduate studies, she obtained her master's degree (January 23, 1992) from the Faculty of Economics in Osijek, and she earned her doctoral degree (26 May 1997) also from the Faculty of Economics in Osijek by defending her dissertation before a committee which included her advisor, as well as an international member, Anuška Ferligoj, a full professor at the University of Ljubljana. She has headed several scientific projects. One such project was the development of the CATI Center, a research platform for collecting, analyzing, and interpreting statistical data. She has participated in numerous scientific conferences in the fields of social sciences and the humanities and has been a recipient of international scholarships and an invited lecturer. In 2012, she was appointed scientific adviser and attained the position of full professor with tenure in the scientific area of social sciences, in the field of economics, and in the branch of quantitative economics. She is also the founder and vice president of Andizet , Institute for Scientific and Artistic Research in the Creative Industries. Literary work She is a member of the Society of Croatian Writers, the Croatian Association of Researchers of Children's Literature, Matica hrvatska and the Croatian Statistical Society. Her literary work started through a collaboration with the Children's Theater Branko Mihaljević in Osijek in the late 1990s. At that time, the Drama Studio of the children's theater was staging the play “Putem sunca”, which was later renamed “Svevidovim tragom” (Tracing Svevid) and appeared in “Izgubljena vila (Lost Fairy), a book of two dramatized texts published by Matica hrvatska in 2002. After the Lost Fairy, in 2005, Naklada Ljevak published Alemperkina kazivanja (Gemfeather’s Sayings) – her interpretation of the mythology of Sučić with superb illustrations by Pika Vončina. The book of letters exchanged with Irena Vrkljan Pismo u pismu (A Letter in a Letter), (Naklada Ljevak, 2008) is a confirmation of a friendship revived