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Sanja’s Diaries of Paulina P

The era of diary prose in children's and youth literature was first popularized by Meg Cabot’s The Princess Diaries and Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and even before that, Sue Townsend’s Adrian Mole Diaries. The development of Croatian diary prose has brought us Sanja Polak, who introduced the series known as Dnevnici Pauline P. (The Diaries of Paulina P) into Croatian children’s literature. It is a series of six titles published in the period between 2000 and 2015, in which the author, who is also Paulina’s mother, included various anecdotes she experienced with children she worked with as a teacher. Such interweaving of autobiographical signals in the fictionality opens up another dimension of interpretation for the reader – one based on which these diaries could be read as autobiographical notes, which is precisely what this paper discusses. Some generic characteristics of diaries are pointed out, first and foremost the diary subject and its relationship to the process of diary writing, and the thematic framework which revolves in two social circles - in the school and family circle.

autobiographical prose, diary, Paulina P, thematic framework

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