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ANTONIJE NINO ŽALICA
FAMILY BACKGROUND
Family
 Milka Žalica, born as Milka Terzić, my grandmother. |  Dragoljub Žalica, my grandfather, court official and writer. |
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 Lazar Tatar, my grandfather, railways manager |  Marija Tatar born as Marija Dvořák (Dvoržak), my grandmother |
 My mother Ivanka Tatar - Žalica, actress |  My father Miodrag Žalica, writer |
 Matej Žalica, my son, graduate psychologist and music producer. |  Marko Žalica, my son, fitness trainer. |
 My wife, Marija Žalica (b. Njirić), librarian |  My brother Pjer Žalica, director and screenwriter. |
 Jasna Žalica,(b.Huseinović) my sister-in-low, actress |  Ismar Žalica, my nephew, designer and musician. |
Dragoljub Žalica
Dragoljub Žalica
 Milka Žalica, my grandmother. I was told that she acted in some plays adapted for the stage by the grandfather. |  Dragoljub Žalica |
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 Dragoljub Žalica wrote short stories and publish them in various magazines in Austro-Hungarian Empire and Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He also adapted some stories of other writers for stage. From 1946 to 1951, in the last years of his life he wrote novelized autobiography in four books, on more than 15 hundred pages of pure and beautiful cyrillic manuscript. |  grandparents were married in Visoko, September 24th 1906 at 11 a.m. - this is an invitation card to their wedding. |
 Postcard sent to my grandfather from Vienna, detail |  From Dragoljub Žalica's manuscript. |
 Love letter written by my grandfather to my grandmother, around 1903. |  Grandfather and grandmother, with daughters Zora (in the middle, as well as the other sisters she has also become a teacher), Ranka (right) and Gina (left), son Slobodan, and grandfather's sister Gospava - Keka. My father Miodrag was still not born. Early 1920's. |
 Ranka Tanasić (b. Žalica) schoolmiss, 1910 - 1993, my aunt. |  Gina Žalica - Mirčetić, schoolmiss, died 1943, my aunt |
 Slobodan Žalica, artillery lieutenant and painter, died in WWII, my uncle. |  Love letter, detail. |
 Address side of love letter written by my grandfather to my grandmother around 1903. |
Miodrag Žalica
Miodrag Žalica
 poetry |  Lot of anecdotes circulate around Sarajevo about Miodrag and his 'bohemian' life style. He was also inspiration for cartoonist Alija Hafizović Haf. |
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 |  Second poetry collection. Cover by Željko Marjanović |
 poetry, from 'Skakavac u fraku', illustration: Željko Marjanović |  manuscript |
 manuscript |  |
 dedication is for fathers friend Ivica Focht, philosopher. |  dedication to Ivica Focht, part two: May 1st 1962 - ''we're going to continue to drink'' |
 short story collection, cover |  This play was directed by Predrag Lucić in Tuzla (it was also his gratuade work for Drama academy in Belgrade) very late '80s |
 In late '70 and early '80 father's plays were translated and staged in Poland. This photo is from one of those performances. I think this one was in Warshaw. |  novel |
 First Miodrag's poetry book. |  |
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click here for a PDF of the original 1978 booklet
Miodrag Žalica, Izabrana poezija
Ivanka Tatar - Žalica
Ivanka Tatar - Žalica
 on the stage | |
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 on the stage |  In 1996 mother acted in brother's short fiction movie, this photo is from this film, with her acting partner Zaim Muzaferija |
 |  Photo from Pjer's movie ''Kraj doba neprijatnosti'' |
 The baby is Pjer |  This photo is taken in our old home. |
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Pjer Žalica
Pjer Žalica
 with Jasna Žalica |  Like most of our friends my brother and me spent a lot of time of our youth playing rock music in some garage. But my brother was really good, with group of friends (Izo Kolečić - drums, Edo Mulahalilović - guitar, vocals, Zoran Kesić - keyboards and Ćiro Đurić - giutar) he played in band called Baobab and win national demo bands competition ( I had the honor to take a part as lyrics writer). Before his directing career he joined pretty popular pop band Hari Mata Hari and recorded one LP with. |
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 |  Pjer was co-writer with Abdulah Sidran for the Ademir kenović's movie. |
 documentary |  |
 |  'Veselo bilo i strašno...' |
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Snježni dan
Miodrag Žalica: Snježni dan, govori Jasna Žalica in memoriam Ivanka Tatar - Žalica
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