MONOGRAPH “CURIOSITIES OF DUBROVNIK FROM THE PAST TWO MILLENNIA”:
The Dubrovnik journalist and publicist Suad Ahmetović is the winner of the Award of the City of Dubrovnik as the author of the book Curiosities of Dubrovnik from the Past Two Millennia, which had an exceptional media reception and aroused great interest among readers. This book can be admired as a standard work of investigative journalism, but records also a strong stimulus for more complete knowledge about Dubrovnik and its traditions and identity. In Curiosities of Dubrovnik from the Past Two Millennia the author draws the most valuable and intriguing particulars from thousands fragments published in various sources (archival documents, history books, memoirs, epigraphs, etc), and also from conversations with the participants and witnesses of individual events, transforming them into a readable and fascinating narrative.
Suad Ahmetović’s most recent work is a representative monograph consisting of 58 textual units, illustrated with 276 photographs in colour, which explains the significance, causes and consequences of the most important events in a broad range of political, cultural and economic themes. In the opinion of prominent literary reviewers, Curiosities of Dubrovnik from the Past Two Millennia will prove invaluable to people of various profiles and professions – not only the cultural promoters, politicians, businessmen, tourist guides, journalists and students, but also to its ordinary citizens and all visitors to Dubrovnik.
From the explanation about the Award of the City of Dubrovnik
If you are looking for a unique suvenir or perfect book on Dubrovnik, bite size stories and legends of the city with glorious illustrations, Curiosities of Dubrovnik from the Past Two Millennia is the answer. This monograph highlights issue and explains the significance,causes and consequences of the most important events in a wide range of political, cultural and economic themes. So far the English version od the book has been sold to readers in 37 different countries in Europe, North America, South America, Australia, like in New Zealand, Japan, Saudi Arabia and Russia. Copies of the monographs can be bouth at a price 200 Kunas in all good book shops in Dubrovnik, or by direct order of the author at the same price with payment of postal delivery.
The Dubrovnik Times, 28. may 2010.
The monograph can be ordered via e-mail: suad.ahmetovic@du.t-com.hr
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