Contributions by Neda Miranda Blazevic-Krietzman
Neda Miranda Blazevic-Krietzman was born and raised in Croatia. She is a writer, artist and former professor of Literature at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota. Since 2007 she lives and works in San Diego, CA. For her eighteen books of poetry, prose and artwork she has received numerous honors and awards among which are: 2012 Croatia Poet Laureate - the Tin Ujević Award for a collection of poetry The Vesuvius Door; 2009, a San Diego Book & Writing Award Association in the Poetry category; 2005, St. Catherine’s Denny Prize Honoree for Distinction in writing; 1991/92, Recipient of DAAD Fellowship for Writing; 1990/91, Writer in Residence at the International Writing Program in Iowa City; 1984/85, Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University and the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. Among Blazevic’s favorite writers are Carol Shields, Wisława Szymborska and Jorge Luis Borges. His ways of pouring his characters, places and times from reality to unreality have established a new order of anarchy, which is the paradox whose inconsistency has inspired Blazevic in her writing.
Marilyn Monroe, my mother
Neda Miranda Blažević-Kreitzman
translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac
Many people wrestle with discomfort and fear when they travel by air. Dino Lučić and Veljko Linić were not that sort. The two young businessmen from Split, Croatia were now reclining, relaxed, en route from Frankfurt, Germany to Los Angeles, wrestling with the urge to sleep that was pulling down their drooping eyelids, hampering their adventuresome spirit to gaze out the little window at the vivid blue sky through which their speedy vessel was winging its way.
Dino Lučić was tall, slender, dark-haired, while Veljko Linić was medium-height, muscular, and blue-eyed. Both worked at Jedrogradnja, a company that built and sold speedboats and yachts. Their best customers were Americans. The salesmen for Jedrogradnja had been working with B&B Brothers, Inc. of Los Angeles for nearly four years.
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Marilyn Monroe, moja majka
Neda Miranda Blažević-Krietzman
Mnogi ljudi se neuspješno bore s nelagodom i strahom od letenja zrakoplovom. Dino Lučić i Veljko Linić nisu pripadali toj skupini ljudi. Ta dvojica mlađih, poslovnih muškaraca iz Splita su sada mirno sjedila na svojim sjedalima u zrakoplovu koji je letio iz Frankurta u Los Angeles i neuspješno se borila jedino sa snom koji im je zaklapao otežale očne kapke, lomeći tako njihove putničke namjere da virkaju kroz prozorčić u blistavo, plavo nebo po kojemu je plužila njihova brza plovilica.
Dino Lučić je bio visok, tanak i tamnokos, a Veljko Linić srednje visine, mišićav i plavook. Obojica su radila u Jedrogradnji, tvrtci koja je gradila i prodavala sportske i motorne jedrilice. Jedrogradnjini najbolji kupci su bili Amerikanci. S tvrtkom The B & B Brothers Inc. u Los Angelesu, predstavnici Jedrogradnje surađivali su gotovo četiri godine.
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