Nationality Croat | Residence Zagreb, Croatia | |
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Born 3 November 1975 (age 41) ( 1975-11-03 ) Mostar, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia Citizenship Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina Occupation Columnist, political analyst Alma mater Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb Similar Veselin Gatalo, Ivica Lučić, Viktor Ivančić, Martina Mlinarević Sopta | ||
Nino Raspudić (3 November 1975) is a Croatian conservative philosopher, writer and political analyst. He is a professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb and the Faculty of Humanities in Mostar. He is a columnist for the Večernji list and Nezavisne novine, and is one of the editors of the Reflex, a political show at the Televizija OBN.
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Biography
Nino Raspudić was born in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia. He finished elementary school in his birth town, and graduated from high school in Treviso, Italy. He graduated philosophy and Italian studies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb in 1999. He became a Junior Researcher at the Department of Italian Literature of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb in 2000. In 2004 he gained master's degree with thesis Slaba misao - jaki pisci: postmoderna i talijanska književnost (Weak Thought - Strong Writers: a Postmodernist Poetics in the Modern Italian Prose). In 2008 he defended doctoral thesis Jadranski (polu)orijentalizam: prikazi Hrvata u talijanskoj književnosti (Trans-Adriatic Semi-Orientalism: Dominant Models in Constituting a Picture of Croats in Italian Literature from Enlightenment until Today).
Raspudić was one of the founders of the civic organisation Urban Movement (Serbo-Croatian: Urbani pokret) in Mostar together with Veselin Gatalo. Gatalo and Raspudić erected a life-size statue of Bruce Lee in Zrinjevac Park in November 2005. The statue symbolised unity of Mostar in a city otherwise divided between Croats and Bosniaks.
Raspudić translated a number of works of various Italian writers, including Umberto Eco, Niccolò Ammaniti, Gianni Vattimo and Luigi Pareyson. He also published number of literary critics and essays.
