Pavao Pavličić (born 16 August 1946, in Vukovar) is a Croatian writer, literary historian and translator whose main focus are crime novels. He writes for both adults and children. Pavao Pavličić was born on August 16, 1946 in Vukovar, where he completed elementary school and high school. In 1969, he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of Zagreb University with a degree in comparative literature and the Italian language, and in 1974 he received his doctorate with a thesis in the field of metrics (Rhyme sisters in Croatian literature: literary-theoretical and literary-historical aspects). Since 1997, Pavličić is a full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. In 2014 he won the Zvane Črnja Award for his Narodno veselje.. References External links 1946 births Living people Croatian novelists Male novelists Croatian essayists Croatian male writers Male essayists Croatian translators Crime fiction writers Members of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts People from Vukovar Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb alumni Academic staff of the University of Zagreb Croatian screenwriters Translators from Italian