Ivana Sajko is a well-known contemporary Croatian writer who has won numerous awards for her work. She began publishing in 1995, her literary and artistic opus consists of plays and novels. The first part of this paper serves as an introduction to the topic and the basic objectives, the next two chapters will define in more detail the issues of basic concepts - identity and body. This is followed by placing the author in a broader context ending with an analysis of the author's literary works. The analysis of the articulation of identity and the relationship of body and identity will be carried through on the examples of the novel Rio bar, History of my family from 1941 to 1991, Love novel and collections of plays Woman-bomb. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the relationship between the collective and the individualism in addition to the role that both culture and society play in the formation of identity. The analysis will discuss the formal features and content aspect of the work establishing links between them. The analysis identified the impact of trauma on identity formation, attempts to overcome the collective with individualism and rebellion, also struggle against established social and cultural patterns paired with the unsustainability of women's position, which will be supported by the interdiscursivity, polyphony of narrative voices and graphic and stylistic solutions.