Kristian Novak
About
Kristian Novak is a Croatian writer, linguist and associate professor at the University in Rijeka. His first novel "The Hanged" was published in 2005. "Dark Mother Earth" (2013), his second novel, won The Tportal prize for Croatian novel of the year and is hailed as one of the best Croatian novels in the last 50 years. The novel was adapted for the stage with great success. His third novel, "Gypsy, But the Fairest of Them All" (2016) won a second Tportal award, as well as two further prestigious national awards, Gjalski and Fran Galović. It was succesfully adapted for the stage as well.
