Antun Šoljan

Who was Antun Šoljan?

Antun Šoljan was a Croatian writer in a period of Cold War who appeared as a part of the literary magazine Krugovi.

He wrote four novels: Izdajice, Kratki izlet, Luka and Drugi ljudi na mjesecu, as well as short stories, theatre and radio plays and poems. He wrote novels under the influence of existentialism, about the alienation of modern man. He is one of the most prominent Croatian authors of what was dubbed the "jeans prose", an off-beat prose genre modeled on the J. D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye.