Tatjana Jambrisak

An Aquarius, born, raised and educated in Zagreb, Croatia. Graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Zagreb, Departments of English and German Literature and Linguistics. Main professional occupation teaching and translating, also managing own private school "Mentor" for foreign languages and other forms of education. Since 1987 a member of Sfera, science fiction club, organizing conventions, co-editing the annual collection of SF short other. Wrote a dozen other, all published, won two national awards for best published SF work. Only recently got introduced to 3D art and Bryce through works by Goran Sarlija.

A collection of short stories, Duh novog svijeta, written from 1989 to 2002, was published in 2003 as the first of the first four books written by Croatian authors in the SFERA publishing series.

I am also proud to have won four national awards for SF writing and art:

1995 SFERA Award
for the short story
"Duh novog svijeta"

1997 SFERA Award
for the short story
"Crveno i crno"

2001 SFERA Award
for color illustration
on the web-site

2002 SFERA Award
for the short story
"Ima li bolje zabave, moje dame?"

I wish to thank Darko Macan, for his love, patience, comments and some titles; my sister Tamara, for her unending doodling of bookmarks on obsolete pieces of paper; Goran Sarlija, for his trust and sponsorship; Darko Vrban, for his praise, used models and many more to come; Aleksandar Ziljak, for my first Photoshop assignment; Zeljko Nastasic and Igor Mrkoci for their help and support; and finally, Vlatko Juric-Kokic, for my first exhibition, my first illustration published on his web page and this web site.

... and, of course, Mum. For the coffee, too ...

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