Julijana Matanović (born 6 April 1959) is a Bosnian Croat short story writer and novelist.
She is also a professor at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, where she teaches contemporary Croatian literature.
[1] She was born in Gradačac, went to primary school in Đurđenovac and then on to high school in Našice, before enrolling at University of Osijek where she earned a degree in Yugoslav languages and literature in 1982.
[2] In 1998 she earned her doctorate at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb with a thesis called Povijesni roman u hrvatskoj književnosti XX.
[2] Her works have been translated into German, Hungarian, Serbian and Slovenian.