by Olga Brajnović | Aug 20, 2020 | challenges, Journalism, Memories
Before its dramatic fall, Yugoslavia had a very complicated political system. There was no president but a collective presidential institution formed by eight persons, one from each federal republic or autonomous region. Every May 5th, one of them took a turn to be...
by Olga Brajnović | Apr 19, 2015 | daily prompt
Write a review of your life — or the life of someone close to you — as if it were a movie or a book. A young woman gets married with an independent journalist in Zagreb in the middle of the WWII. For months before the end of the war she gives birth to a baby girl....
by Olga Brajnović | Jun 6, 2014 | challenges
Today, write about a loss. The twist: make this the first post in a three-post series. 1990. The first open elections in Croatia, part of the former Yugoslavia. I have been sent as a young reporter from Spain to cover the event because as a daughter of Croatians I...
