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Veljko Barbieri (* 14) May 1950 in Split, SFR Yugoslavia is a Croatian writer, nonfiction author and gastronomic expert who is particularly committed to the preservation of Croatian culinary traditions. Barbieri also appeared as a moderator of corresponding television shows.

Live life
Veljko Barbieri comes from an old family whose origins date back to the Venetian governor Francesco Barbieri of Trogir (1576). The Italian Barbieri family, on the other hand, came from Brescia. His father was a journalist, founder and editor of various newspapers in Croatia and from 1964 onwards he was a correspondent in Mexico, where Veljko Barbieri also lived for two years and learned Spanish, French and English.

After graduation and university degree in Zagreb, where he had studied philosophy, French and archaeology, and later Spanish, Veljko Barbieri wrote fourteen prose books. He is represented in many domestic and foreign anthologies. His most famous novel, Epitaph of a Royal Foodie (Epitaf carskog gurmana), in which gastronomy is the starting point of the struggle against authoritarian rule, is considered one of the best-selling Croatian books of modern times with 220,000 copies. In addition, 105,000 copies have been sold in the German-speaking area so far. The film rights were purchased and a film adaptation by director Christoph Heckenbücker was planned for 2012 in Cyprus, Croatia and Germany.

Barbieri regularly writes gastronomic sections in magazines and culinary contributions for Croatian television. For example, in Dubrovnik in 2009 he produced an episode of the menu of lost time, which was about preparing already forgotten traditional foods of Croatia and the Republic of Dubrovnik. The muse of many of his books is his grandmother Anka Barbieri, who raised him together with his grandfather because his parents had separated shortly after his birth and his mother thought he was safer there because of a scarlet fever epidemic rampant in Makarska area.

Works
Serbo-Croatian
Priča o grospodinu Zaku. Nakladni zavod Matice hrvatske; Centar za kulturu Narodnog sveučilišta grada, Zagreb 1972.
Novc̆ić Gordijana Pia i druge mediteranske pric̆e. Centar za kulturnu djelatnost Saveza socijalistic̆ke omladine, Zagreb 1975.
Zatvor od oleandrova lišća Centar društvenih djelatnosti Saveza socijalističke omladine Hrvatske, Zagreb 1977.
Trojanski Konj August Cesarec. Zagreb 1980.
Epitaf carskoga gurmana. August Cesarec. Zagreb 1983.
Odisejev erotikon. Naprijed, Zagreb 1984.
Dalmacija. Legenda o svjetlu. (with Ivo Pervan), Turistkomerc, Zagreb 1991.
(Dalmatia). Legend of light. also with German titles
Tko je sa mnom palio kukuruze. Dnevnik iz Pakraca. Naklada DHK, Zagreb 1996.
Split. Roman staroga grada. AGM, Zagreb 1997.
Hvar – Kantilene i kartoline. AGM, Zagr