Predrag Matvejević

Country

Yugoslavia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Languages

Croatian

Dates

1932 — 2017

eastern europe

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Predrag Matvejević was a Bosnian and Croatian writer and scholar. A literature scholar who taught at universities in Zagreb, Paris and Rome, he is best known for his 1987 non-fiction book Mediterranean: A Cultural Landscape, a seminal work of cultural history of the Mediterranean region which has been translated into more than 20 languages.