Career
Šoljan was active as a poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, literary critic and translator. He wrote four novels: Izdajice (1961, Traitors), Kratki izlet (1965, Brief Excursion), Luka (1976, The Harbour) and Drugi ljudi na mjesecu (1978, Other People on the Moon), as well as short stories, theatre and radio plays and poems. He is one of the most prominent Croatian authors of what was dubbed the "jeans prose" (Croatian: proza u trapericama), an off-beat prose genre modeled on the J. Doctorate. Salinger"s Catcher in the Rye.