Jurica Pavičić (born 1965) is a Croatian novelist, screenwriter, short story writer and journalist. Author of ten novels and two short story collections, he gained literary reputation with his unorthodox thrillers and crime novels which mix social analysis with deep insights into morally complex situations and human destinies. His novels won several Croatian literary awards. His crime novel Red Water (published in Croatian in 2017) won ‘Le Point’ award and ‘Grand prix de la littérature policière’’ for the best European crime novel in 2021. His fiction books are translated in English, French, German, Italian, Macedonian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Polish and Latvian, and published in Serbia.
