Milivoj Solar
Milivoj Solar (born 8 April 1936) is a Croatian literary theorist and literary historian. Solar was born in Koprivnica. At the University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences he earned a degree in philosophy and Yugoslav studies in 1959. At the same faculty he received his PhD in 1964 with a thesis on Fran Galović. Since 1963 he worked as an assistant, then as a docent and as an associate, and finally since 1976 as a full tenured professor of literature theory and methodology of the study of literature at the Department for Comparative Literature. In  the period of 1987-1990 he also served as SR Croatia's minister of education and culture. Work. Solar's scholarly work is primarily concerned with literary theory, especially the issues of poetics and the relationship between literary theory and philosophy. He also published works on the methodology of literary studies, literature analysis and universal elements of cultural history such as myths. He published the following books: He's a regular member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2008, member of the Croatian Writers' Association and the Croatian Philosophic Society. He's a winner of the Zagreb  City Award in 1972, Award "Božidar Adžija" in 1975, Vladimir Nazor Award in 1977 and HAZU award in 2004 for the book "Povijest svjetske književnosti" ('History of world literature').