The Great Healer

Life inflicts wounds
And lets time take over.

Time
Quietly rolls up its sleeves
Watches
Feels with its fingers and asks:
Does it hurt?
Hurts less now?
Then it rinses
And applies assorted herbs
First this one
Then that one.

And then it wraps
it slowly keeps wrapping
its white bandages
over the wounds.

Grigor Vitez

Translation by
Marija Andraka

International academic conference
THE GREAT HEALER - A CENTURY OF GRIGOR VITEZ
Zagreb, 24-25 November 2011

This conference marks the centennial of the birth of Grigor Vitez and is organized by

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb
Faculty of Teacher Education, Zagrebu
Croatian Association of Researchers in Children's Literature
Zagreb City Libraries - Croatian Center for Children's Book - Croatian Section of IBBY

31 May 2011 - deadline for application and proposal submission

Conference topics:
  1. Literary, cultural and pedagogical work of Grigor Vitez
  2. Institutions, genres and discourses of children's literature