In his career Pauletta ranged from being a craftsman, a director of a factory in
Pula that supplied souvenir producers in
Medjugorje, to a politician and a member of the
Croatian Parliament.
Early life Pauletta was born in
Premantura: a village in the
municipality of
Medulin, in the southern part of Istrian peninsula, then part of the
Kingdom of Italy. He lived in
Ventimiglia until 1946, near the Italian border with France, where his father had a job at Italian customs.
Politician He officially entered politics in 1982, when Pauletta was elected representative of craftsmen in the Associated Labor Council of the Croatian Parliament in
Socialist Republic of Croatia, then part of the
SFR Yugoslavia. He continued to deal with politics in a local newspaper in
Rijeka, with which he began to collaborate in 1988. In 1990 he was among the founders of the
Istrian Democratic Assembly, a political party founded on the eve of
first multi-party elections in the
independent Croatia. In the same year he went to Italy to work and in 1993 Pauletta returned to Croatia where he became a deputy of the Croatian Parliament or
Sabor. In 1997 he retired from politics to pursue writing. He is also known for the project "Terra d'Istria", or "Histria Terra", which claims an even greater autonomy of Istria from the central government of Zagreb. However, the project was never carried out, and it was indeed a reason for harsh criticism of Pauletta, accused of being an irredentist close to Italian far-right circles.
Writer He graduated in mechanical engineering in 1964 in
Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, then part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and in the following years after
bachelor's degree, he made scientific publications regarding mechanical engineering, and he worked as an occasional teacher at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in
Zenica,
Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the end of 1999 he published his first book "Histria Collage" or "Histrija Kolaz" in both languages: Italian and Croat. In 2005 he published his second book "The fugitive". With a group of authors in 2007, he published a monograph about Premantura. His other book is titled "Stories of Istria", published in 2009. In 2014 Pauletta wrote his last book "Mladić iz stoljeća prošlog" which translates as
The young man of the last century. ==See also==