page_title: Goli Otok
section_title: Goli Otok in literature
hierarchical_section_title: Goli Otok / Goli Otok in literature
caption_attribution_description: from www.goli-otok.com Premission on Serbian
context_page_description: Goli Otok is a barren, uninhabited island that was the site of a political prison which was in use when Croatia was part of Yugoslavia. The prison was in operation between 1949 and 1989.
  The island is located in the northern Adriatic Sea just off the coast of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Croatia with an area of approximately 4.5 square kilometers. Exposed to strong bora winds, particularly in the winter, the island's surface is almost completely devoid of vegetation, giving Goli Otok its name. It is also known as 'Croatian Alcatraz' because of its island location and high security.
context_section_description: 1981: Noč do jutra (Night till Morning Comes) ‒ fictional novel by Slovenian author, Branko Hofman
  1981: Herezia e Dervish Mallutes - allegorical novel by Kosovar author, Teki Dervishi
  1982: Tren 2 - novel by Antonije Isaković
  1984: Umiranje na obroke (Dying by Installments) ‒ autobiographical book by Slovenian author, Igor Torkar, about Goli Otok prison conditions
  1984: Goli Otok: The Island of Death ‒ non-fiction book by Bulgarian/Macedonian author, Venko Markovski, detailing a history of Goli Otok prison
  1990: Goli Otok by Dragoslav Mihailović
  1993: Lov na stenice by Dragoslav Mihailović
  1996: Goli Otok: stratište duha ‒ non-fiction book by Croatian author, Mihovil Horvat, containing the events of his arrest and imprisonment during Informbiro period
  1997: Goli Otok: Italiani nel Gulag di Tito ‒ historical report by Italian-Croatian author, Giacomo Scotti
  1997: Zlotvori – novel by Dragoslav Mihailović
  1997: Tito's Hawaii ‒ fictional novel by author using the pen-name Rade Panic (name taken from a political victim of the same name whose wife was interred on the island; not his actual name) 
  2005: Razglednica s ljetovanja ‒  autobiographical short novel by the Croatian author Dubravka Ugrešić; published in the Belgrade literary review REČ časopis za književnost i kulturu, i društvena pitanja, br. 74/20, 2006, and in the book Nikog nema doma, ed. devedeset stupnjeva, Zagreb 2005. Italian translation Cartolina Estiva by Luka Zanoni Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso, 2008
  2010: Island of the World - fictional novel by Canadian author, Michael D. O'Brien.
  2019:  Life Plays with Me - novel by Israeli writer David Grossman. One of the main characters, Vera, was interred as a political prisoner in Goli Otok before immigrating to Israel.
caption: Goli Otok and its neighboring islands
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