User:Ivica~enwiki

Ivica Smolec was born 1954 in Zagreb, Croatia and lived in eastern part of the town. He studied and worked mostly in the western part. Since 1985 he’s lived in Velika Gorica, near Zagreb. Electronics engineer. He likes electronics, nature, rock, blues, country ballads, original Latin-American music. He has a lot of loves and hobbies, as electronics, fishing, cooking, writing, reading, plants, animals...

Writing poetry for his own heart (in Croatian). Never tried to publish it, except a few poems in a journal, some thirty years ago. Have started to write prose. His first novel, "Vode teku dalje" ("Waters are continuing to flow") won the literary prize award "Albatros" for 2004. He’s just finished a new novel (October 2005 and looking for a publisher. He’s also writing a collection of children's tales (he likes kids).

Voluntary blood donor (June 2005 - 33 times). As soldier he was at first as recruit in former Yugoslav Army, in Strumica, Macedonia, in olden 79/80, and then on Croatian battlefields near Petrinja in springtime 1995. He hates any war. Never shot any man and won’t.