{"id":11609,"date":"2025-06-16T13:59:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T11:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kultura-mostar.ba\/?p=11609"},"modified":"2025-06-17T13:10:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T11:10:18","slug":"spusten-zastor-na-mostarsko-proljece-2025-hrvatska-u-30-prica-zatvorila-gotovo-dvomjesecni-blagdan-kulture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kultura-mostar.ba\/en\/2025\/06\/16\/spusten-zastor-na-mostarsko-proljece-2025-hrvatska-u-30-prica-zatvorila-gotovo-dvomjesecni-blagdan-kulture\/","title":{"rendered":"The curtain has fallen on Mostar Spring 2025. Croatia closed the almost two-month cultural festival in 30 stories"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An interesting literary program \u2013 presenting the most popular and
best-selling books in Croatia Croatia in 30 stories by Bo\u017ee Skoka i
The curtain has fallen on Zvonimir Frko-Pete\u0161i\u0107's exhibition at the Queen Katarina Kosa\u010da Gallery.
another cultural holiday in the city on the Neretva River \u2013 Mostar Spring 2025. It was
it's an event where, in a specially designed scenario, the audience was told the story of
Croatia as it is, through the eyes of its authors, and as seen by all those who have read it
or heard about it.
The book, or rather its authors, were awarded a prestigious award last year.
Marco Polo Grand Prix of the World Association of Travel Journalists as the most useful
a book about a country. It is a unique work that, in a journalistic manner,
speaks about Croatia and Croats and from a completely different perspective speaks about
Croatian history and present, contributions and great people, mentality and
tradition, flaws and virtues... Each of the 30 selected stories about Croatia
It is supported by facts and a multitude of interesting facts, which many are discovering.
for the first time, all with beautiful illustrations by a native of Sarajevo, currently one of the
of leading Croatian illustrator Vedran Klemens.
Along with the authors Skoka and Frka-Pete\u0161i\u0107, the Mostar audience was also talked about by prof.
Dr. Vanda Babi\u0107 Gali\u0107, university professor and scientific advisor
Institute for Migration in Zagreb and special advisor to the Croatian Minister
of Foreign and European Affairs, and Prof. Dr. Sc. Nevenko Herceg, full professor
University of Mostar, while she also designed the script in an interesting way through the evening
The attendees were led by the Secretary General of Matica Hrvatska Mostar Misijana Brki\u0107-
Milinkovic.
\u2013 It was an honor for us to close the year with the presentation of the book Croatia in 30 Stories.
the Mostar Spring event, which this season is rich in offers and
content really impressed us. We are also pleased that we have completed the cycle of presentations
our book, which was published in Croatian, English and French, and
We are also preparing a German edition, after presentations in Zagreb, Osijek,
Split, P\u00e9cs, Budapest, Novska, Ljubu\u0161ki and Imotski..., concluded in
city on the Neretva River \u2013 said Skoko.
The sponsor of the evening was Croatia osiguranje, and the musical part of the program included
performed by students of the Belcanto Singing School Josipa Medi\u0107 and Karla Kraljevi\u0107, along with
mentor Darija Ramljak.<\/p>


A WORD OR TWO ABOUT THE AUTHORS:<\/p>

Bo\u017eo Skoko, born Ljubu\u0161ak, is a full professor of strategic
of Communication at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb and a guest
professor at the University of Algebra Bernays and at the University of Mostar and a well-known
publicist, commentator and communications expert.
Zvonimir Frka-Pete\u0161i\u0107, born in Paris, is a long-time Croatian diplomat and
Ambassador, who has served as Head of the Office of the President since 2017
of the Government of the Republic of Croatia and is one of the closest associates of the Croatian Prime Minister Andrej
Plenkovic.
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