Tomislav Sunić
| Tomislav Sunić | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 3, 1953 Zagreb, Yugoslavia (present-day Zagreb, Republic of Croatia) |
| Other names | Tom Sunic |
| Citizenship | Croatia & United States |
| Fields | Political Science, sociology of culture |
| Institutions | Formerly professor at California State University, University of California, Juniata College; also former diplomat for the Croatian government |
| Alma mater | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Known for | Politico-cultural activism |
Tomislav Sunić (born February 3, 1953) is a Croatian writer, translator and a former professor. His views are often cited as part of the Nouvelle Droite movement in Europe.
Sunić was born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (present-day Zagreb, Republic of Croatia) in 1953 to a family of Croatian Herzegovinian origin. He is a naturalized United States citizen.
His father, Mirko Sunić (1915–2008) was an attorney in communist Yugoslavia, who, along with Tomislav's sister, Mirna Sunić, were "prisoners of conscience". The two were charged with creating "hostile propaganda", under Article 133 of the Yugoslav Criminal Code, and the court sentenced them both to 4 and 1 years of prison respectively. Mirko Sunić was championed by Amnesty International and 15 United States congressmen in 1985), Mirko Sunić authored, in 1996, Moji inkriminirani zapisi ("My incriminating records").
Tomislav Sunić studied French and English Language and Literature at the University of Zagreb until 1978. From 1980 to 1982 he worked in Algeria as an interpreter for the Yugoslav-Croatian construction company Ingra. He emigrated to the United States, where he received a master's degree at California State University, Sacramento in 1985.
In June 1987, at the invitation of Freedom House, Sunić and Mate Meštrović, along with twelve other émigré academics and dissidents from different Yugoslav constituent republics, were invited to discuss the political crisis in Yugoslavia. Sunić, who participated in the discussion, gave a short speech on Communist repression in Yugoslavia and what he described as the activities of the Yugoslav secret police, the UDBA.
Tomislav Sunić received a doctorate in political science in 1988 from the University of California, Santa Barbara. During his graduate studies he lobbied for Croatian prisoners in Yugoslavia and wrote for the émigré Croat London-based biweekly Nova Hrvatska and the Madrid-based Croat literary quarterly Hrvatska Revija (Revista Croata). From 1988-93, he taught at California State University, the University of California, and Juniata College (Pennsylvania). From 1993-2001, he served in various diplomatic positions with the Croatian government in Zagreb, London, Copenhagen, and Brussels. He taught at the Anglo-American College in Prague, and currently resides in Zagreb, where he works as a freelance writer.
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