Pavao Pavličić (born 16 August 1946, in Vukovar[1]) is a Croatian writer, literary historian and translator whose main focus are crime novels.

In 1969, he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of Zagreb University with a degree in comparative literature and the Italian language, and in 1974 he received his doctorate with a thesis in the field of metrics (Rhyme sisters in Croatian literature: literary-theoretical and literary-historical aspects).

[2] Since 1997, Pavličić is a full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

[3] In 2014 he won the Zvane Črnja Award for his Narodno veselje.

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