Croatian Greats S02E06 · Vesna Parun

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She wrote an entire mountain of books, 87 in total and did so on trams, in bed, and standing up, because she didn’t have a desk. But did you know about her love of football and sports predictions? And that the poem *“Ti koja imaš nevinije ruke”* was translated into 22 languages?!

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