Jasna Horvat is an award-winning author, theorist of culture and a professor of economics. Born in 1966, she started writing children’s books in the late nineties and later moved on to novels. She is the author of numerous books including Vilijun, Atanor and AZ, and her literary work often celebrates Croatian heritage through the stories of its mythology, folk tales and history. In 2011, she was awarded the Josip Juraj Strossmayer Award from the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences. Jasna is active as a writer, cultural theorist and scientist/researcher, and in her writing she questions literature with narrative experiments characterized by creative play and creation at all discourse levels.