{"id":578,"date":"2018-05-18T11:46:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T11:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/?p=578"},"modified":"2018-07-23T11:44:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T11:44:50","slug":"mladen-bjazics-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/product\/mladen-bjazics-path\/","title":{"rendered":"Mladen Bja\u017ei\u0107\u2019s path"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cCome to Zlarin,<\/em><\/p>\n

Wherever you go<\/em><\/p>\n

On the coral islet<\/em><\/p>\n

We welcome you all\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Born on 26 January 1924 on Zlarin. In the registry of births, as well as in his certificate of nationality, the date 24 January is stated, but his mother told him she knew when she gave birth to him, and that the priest wrote down the wrong date. Mother knows best, and he took the date as his birth date, even though his documents state \u201cthe other one\u201c. It appears that these contradictions are part of his life. Her wanted to become a sea captain, but since he was an only child his mother didn\u2019t want to let him go to the \u201cother side of the world\u201c to Bakar. He wanted to become a priest out of spite, but his father\u2019s uncle told his mother that it would be wiser if he learned a trade. He became a journalist and writer.<\/p>\n

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He was the editor of Pionir, he launched the first children\u2019s newspaper in Croatia and then an entertaining youth weekly that, at that time, became the most sought-after youth and children\u2019s weekly. In 1964 he received Journalists\u2019 Association award \u201cOtokar Ker\u0161ovani\u201d for series Mendin program, where he wrote screenplay for over eighty episodes. He created many shows and wrote screenplays and dramatizations, and at the same time he published twenty one books: poems for kids and adults, stories and novels \u2013 two of them in old Zlarin \u010dakavski dialect. He wrote eight novels, mostly SF, together with his friend Zvonimir Furtinger.<\/p>\n

He received many prestigious awards. Most significant one is the Life Achievement Andrija Maurovi\u0107 Award for his exceptional contribution to Croatian comic book. For children\u2019s novel Opasno po \u017eivot he received Ivana Brli\u0107 Ma\u017eurani\u0107 Award in 1994. At TV festival in Neum in 1990, in the category youth drama program, he received the award for screenplay together with Fanelli for directing the TV play Starci , based on Viktor Car Emin\u2019s short story. He received numerous awards, but his favorite one is the Readers\u2019 Delight Award.<\/p>\n

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He was the custodian of Zlarin\u2019s zlarinske \u010dakavski dialect and, from 2003 on, he maintained the school of \u010dakavski dialect – “Neka zvoni \u010da”, which made sure that new, as well as older generations, know the true Zlarin dialect and that old Zlarin everyday words do not die out.<\/p>\n

He died two days before his 93rd birthday, on 24 January 2017 in \u0160ibenik, and he is buried on his beloved Zlarin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cCome to Zlarin, Wherever you go On the coral islet We welcome you all\u201d   Born…","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-explore","category-product"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}