"Tragovima Odiseja" with Jasen Boko

As part of the Month of Croatian Books, the Pula Public Library will host writer and travel writer Jasen Boko, who will present the second revised and expanded edition of his book In the Footsteps of Odysseus (How Penelope’s Mischievous Husband Got Lost in the Adriatic) on Thursday, 22 October 2026, at 6 p.m. at the Central Library.

Jasen Boko holds a degree in literature and is a dramaturge. He worked for Slobodna Dalmacija as a journalist and commentator, editor of the cultural section, and theatre and literary critic. He subsequently worked as an independent artist and freelance writer. In December 2012, he joined the Drama Department of the Croatian National Theatre in Split, first as its director and later as a dramaturge and producer.

Over the course of approximately thirty years of writing for the stage, he has written around twenty plays, which have been staged in some forty professional productions. Several radio dramas and adaptations of his works have been broadcast as part of Croatian Radio’s drama programme. He has also collaborated with Croatian Television and Croatian Radio.

His literary work has earned him several awards, and as a dramaturge he has contributed to more than twenty theatre productions. He has also lectured at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Split.

He has published around twenty books for both adults and children, including New Croatian Drama, Tin – A Biography: Thirty Years of Travelling, The Fifth Side of the World, Notes from the (Half-)Darkness of the Theatre, On the Silk Road (How Marco Polo Lied to Us), Stories from the Museum, Upstream Through Latin America – Following Che Guevara from Patagonia to Cuba, Life and Death Along the Sacred River – Down the Ganges from the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal, and From the Dnieper to the Adriatic…

Following the publication of the picture books Children of Titicaca and Children of the Kalash, he wrote Children of Kenya, which he will present in Pula on this occasion as part of the programme 16 Books in Search of Readers.

Until recently a dedicated solo traveller, in recent years he has been designing and leading tours to India, Japan and Sri Lanka, as well as jeep expeditions across the Balkans. As a traveller, travel writer and promoter of travel culture, he has given hundreds of lectures about his books and journeys at conferences and festivals in numerous countries. He is also a frequent guest in the media—and has no intention of stopping there.