{"id":15886,"date":"2022-03-16T15:08:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T14:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/?post_type=news&#038;p=15886"},"modified":"2022-03-16T15:08:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T14:08:46","slug":"president-milanovic-bestows-grand-order-of-king-dmitar-zvonimir-with-sash-and-star-upon-marko-grcic","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/en\/news\/president-milanovic-bestows-grand-order-of-king-dmitar-zvonimir-with-sash-and-star-upon-marko-grcic\/","title":{"rendered":"President Milanovi\u0107 Bestows Grand Order of King Dmitar Zvonimir with Sash and Star upon Marko Gr\u010di\u0107"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The President of the Republic Zoran Milanovi\u0107 has bestowed the Grand Order of King Dmitar Zvonimir with Sash and Star upon author, translator and journalist Marko Gr\u010di\u0107 for his extraordinary contributions in the fields of literature, translation and opinion journalism through which he has enriched Croatian culture by strengthening its national and universal components. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his address at the award ceremony, President Milanovi\u0107 said that Mr. Marko Gr\u010di\u0107 is a renowned individual about whom little is known. \u201cThe part of the public that is not erudite, which you are a part of, isn\u2019t really informed about Marko Gr\u010di\u0107. It isn\u2019t informed because that is the destiny of people of such calibre, strength and with such an enlightening role that you had in your long, very fruitful and beautiful life,\u201d said the President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMarko Gr\u010di\u0107\u2019s contribution and mission is such that this is the least the Croatian state could do for him,\u201d said President Milanovi\u0107, adding that Croatia has only a handful of such people who are Mr. Gr\u010di\u0107\u2019s contemporaries. \u201cWe have yet to see from the generation that is coming and from the one that is maturing whether anyone will meet his match,\u201d said the President, emphasizing that he is exceptionally honoured for the opportunity to perform today this small deed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanking the President for the award, Mr. Gr\u010di\u0107 said that he sees today\u2019s event as symbolic and as a glimmer of hope. \u201cUnfortunately, we live in an atmosphere of a collective global health and war trauma in which the individual is worth less and less or is sometimes worth nothing,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen a man receives an award or a top national decoration as I am now, he can never be sure whether he is worthy of such an honour compared to others. And that is why I dedicate this medal to my late wife Desanka, and to my living and deceased friends and colleagues without whom I would not have achieved even this bit that I have achieved in my life. 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