# Stanka Gjurić

Stanka Gjurić (pronounced; born 20 January 1966) is a Croatian poet, essayist, actress, filmmaker and ex model. She is a member of the Croatian Writers' Association, Croatian Academy of Science and Art in Diaspora (Basel, Switzerland) and HDS ZAMP. She has also acted in seven feature films.

## Biography

Stanka Gjurić was born in Čakovec, FNR Yugoslavia (modern-day Croatia). Today she lives in Zagreb. She has published 20 books (mainly poems, philosophical and lyrical essays). Since 2006 has also worked as a film maker, gaining worldwide acclaim with her short film Ubojite misli (Battle Thoughts). Her short films have been screened in film festivals in France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, India, Egypt, Switzerland, Bangladesh, Brazil, Austria, etc, and she has won 25 awards. In 2019, on the famous IMDb, Gjurić is on the list of 'Croatian Beautiful, Famous & Sexy Actresses', alongside the sixteen most beautiful Croatian actresses.
In November 2024 Stanka chairs the international jury at the Egyptian American Film Festival in New York (NYC).

## Family

Stanka's mother Stanka, aka Lela (born Kopjar, 1934–2018, Čakovec), worked as a typist at the Municipal Court in Čakovec, while her father, Dragan Gjurić (1929-1992, Čakovec), was the director of accounting at the G.K. "Međimurje". Stanka is a unit, but his father has two older half-brothers, Tomislav (born in 1949) and Roman (born in 1952). By the way, Stanka's distant cousin is Alojzije Mišić, the bishop of Mostar-Duvno, and the apostolic administrator of Trebinje-Mrkan from 1912 until his death in 1942. Alojzije (Stjepan) Mišić's parents were Mate and Marija (née Cigić) Mišić. Alojzije had two sisters, Marija and Persa. Marija married Ivan Gjurić (Stanka's great-grandfather, i.e. the father of her grandfather Andrija), who with Marija, in addition to Andrija, had three other children (Antun, Ljudevit and Viktorija). Alojzije Mišić's sister, Persa, was a nun.

## Poetry

* Sedmi pečat, 1981
* Treći čin, 1983
* Dječak, 1986
* Ključarev san, 1990
* Il sogno del guardiano, 1994
* Protuotrov ili njegovanje ludila, 1994
* Protuotrov ili njegovanje ludila, 1998
* Sve što sja, 2005
* Kažnjavalac dobrih navika, 2005
* Bešćutnost akvarela, 2008
* Protuotrov ili njegovanje ludila/Contravveleno o coltivazione della follia, 2017
* Nepremostiva, 2020

## Essays

* Lekcija o drskosti, 2000
* Umijeće življenja, 2015
* Kroz Eros i Thanatos, 2017
* Unveiling reality, 2018
* Istina o sreći, 2018
* Budnost, 2022

## Opinion piece

* Otpovijed, 2014
* Otpovijed (II dio), 2015

## Diary prose

* Dnevnik vodonoše/The Diary of an Aquarian, 2010

## Filmography
### Acting roles

* That Summer of White Roses, as White Rose(1989)
* Vjetar u mreži, as A Woman in a Dream (1989)
* Školjka šumi, as Barmaid (1991)
* Vrijeme za, as Daughter in Law (1992)
* Tu, as Nurse (2003)
* Kad zvoni?, as Nurse (2005)
* S druge strane, as The old man's daughter (2016)
* Koja je ovo država! as Faruk's wife Enisa (2018)
* Link as Stanka Gjurić (2021)

### Directing

* Battle Thoughts (Ubojite misli, 2006) - short
* Sleeping and dreaming (Spavanje i sanjanje, 2006) - short
* Exhibitionist (Susret s egzibicionistom, 2006) - short
* Passion for book has not disappeared (Strast za knjigom nije nestala, 2007) - short
* Eleven (Jedanaest, 2007) - short
* Happy boat (Sretan brod, 2007) - short
* Courtyard window (Dvorišni prozor, 2007) - short
* Luka's prophecy (Lukino proročanstvo, 2007) - short
* Alexandrian poets (Aleksandrijski pjesnici, 2008) - short
* The sound of life (Zvuci života, 2008) - short
* Bast (2009) - short
* Bon Appétit!(Dobar tek!, 2009) - short
* Noon Shot (Zagrebačko podne, 2009) - short
* Lullaby (Uspavanka,2010) - short
* Immoral Manual (Nemoralna čitanka, 2013) - short
* Lioncity (Lavograd, 2015) - short
* Perfect Tattoo (2016) - short
* Rhythm (Ritam, 2019) - short
* Once upon a time (Jednom davno, 2020) - short
* Link (2022) - short
* Summer morning) - short
* Bread (Kruh, 2022) - short
* Lust and the heart (O požudi i srcu, 2022) - short
* Son of a Prophetess (Vračarin sin, 2022) - short
* Six tears (Šest plakanja, 2023) - short
* Without Breathing (Nedišući, 2024) - short