Since her emergence in the mid- 1990s Ivana Sajko has proven herself to be one of the most significant authors of contemporary Croatian literature. The first part of this paper serves as an introduction to the context of the issue and is therefore occupied by the author's oeuvre and placement of her work in the contemporary Croatian poetic and cultural-political context. Through analyzing her play Woman-bomb and novel Rio bar I will endeavor to highlight her displacement from the traditional ways of the genres and point out categorical challenges of these works. The analysis of Sajko's dramatic works will take into account the postdramatic treatment of space, chronology, character and role of the playwright, with special attention paid to the intrusion of narrative strategies into dramatic discourse as a postdramatic act. In the chapter considering the novel the main preoccupation will be interdiscursivity, which will turn out to be one of the dominant features of the author's oeuvre. Other tools that contribute to the position of Sajko's novels on the edge of the genre canon, such as the appearance of dramatic modes within the narrative frame and the merging of levels of narration, will also be analyzed. Usual genre borders are not limiting for Sajko, as it is now obvious, she frequently interweaves and mixes genre elements. The conception of the character in Sajko’s oeuvre also evades the inherited modes of characterization, given the extremely limited information the reader receives about the character. A number of common features within Sajko's plays and novels becomes apparent through further analysis: social sensibility and political subtext are almost always present, as well as dealing with ideological and cultural patterns, whether it is the female position in a patriarchal socio-cultural structure, the horror of war and terrorism or survival in contemporary Croatian posttransition reality.