Drama Anthology Marin Držić Award. Croatian Drama 2022. The anthology contains six awarded plays from the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia's "Marin Držić" competition for 2022. The first prize-winning play, "Žena himna" by Davor Špišić, is a mature, well-crafted, and innovatively constructed biographical drama about Paula Preradović, a Croatian poet and writer, granddaughter of Petar Preradović, remembered as the author of the Austrian anthem. The second prize is equally shared by Edi Matić and Espi Tomičić. Edi Matić's play "Vulnera urbis, vulnera orbis" (Wounds of the City, Wounds of the World) revisits the war-torn 1990s and the spaces of Split, unveiling traumas and crimes from the past rarely addressed in Croatian dramatic literature. Espi Tomičić's "Ples na broju 60" is a touching, intimate, poetic drama about a warm relationship full of love and understanding between a grandmother and her grandson. The third prize is equally shared by Katja Grcić, Hana Konsa, and Ana Maras Harmander. Katja Grcić's play "Prema podacima: Druga" focuses on the life testimonies of three women with quite different psychophysical and socio-intellectual habits, emphasizing their love relationships and experiences living with men. "Ostanak" by Hana Konsa is a disturbing and poignant drama unraveling the deep trauma carried by the two protagonists since early childhood. "Nemaš samo ti ekskluzivu na patnju" by Ana Maras Harmander raises the fundamental question of whether we become what we want to be or if our origins define us.

Drama Anthology Marin Držić Award. Croatian Drama 2023. The anthology contains six awarded plays from the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia's "Marin Držić" competition for 2023. The first prize-winning play, "Tuđe topline" by Espi Tomičić, is an intimate, poetic play for three characters that meticulously and with surgical precision, yet volcanically emotionally, dissects the beginning, duration, and end of a love relationship between Him and Her. The second prize is equally shared by Lucija Marković and Antonela Tošić. In Lucija Marković's play "75 godina i Allah nije prozborio ni riječ", algorithms lead the author to poignant testimonies and dreadful images of war in Gaza. We travel with her through people's posts arguing about the state and God, witnessing dramatic fates and becoming aware that the "lawfulness of the world we live in won't let us think about them constantly". "Bolna djeca u cvijeću" by Antonela Tošić is a drama choosing the increasingly prevalent trend of younger generations in modern society, highlighted even more in dramatic writing: Instagram communication. The third prize is equally shared by Nina Horvat, Matej Opolcer, and Dorotea Šušak. The delicate dilemma between solitude and connection, and the search for someone who could break the loneliness, fuels Nina Horvat's play "Krivi spoj". Matej Opolcer's "Tigrice govori" speaks of young people with desires unsupported within themselves, constrained by fears and the stagnation of the province, reduced to a life starting on Saturdays and ending in the early hours of Sunday. In the play "Trenutak prije – poslije" (or "Djeca odlaze nepomućenih očiju"), Dorotea Šušak questions the purpose and validity of a civilization that continuously and unconditionally turns its own children into innocent victims.