Slađana Bukovac

Slađana Bukovac (Glina, 1971) was born near the Croatian-Bosnian border, later living in both Sarajevo and Zagreb. She graduated in art history and comparative literature, worked as a journalist and columnist on the Croatian national television, and as the editor of a radio show about psychological phenomena and illnesses called One Flew over 101,3.

Her most notable works include the novels Travelers, which received Slavić Award and Kiklop for debut fiction of the year, A Clan of Ghosts, and Stall Disease, shortlisted for several Croatian prestigious literary awards. To remove the animal, her first short story collection and latest work received amazing reviews. Bukovac is praised for her nuanced storytelling and deeply psychological works.

Her books have been translated into German and Hungarian. 

 

 

 

Luka Bekavac

Luka Bekavac (Osijek, 1976) graduated in Comparative Literature and Philosophy and received his PhD from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, where he has been working at the Comparative Literature Department since 2006. His works and translations have been published in numerous magazines (Zarez, Tvrđa, Quorum (member of editorial board 2004-2006), Gordogan, Frakcija, Književna revija, 15 dana, Akt, Književna smotra, Umjetnost riječi, Filozofska istraživanja, Performance Research), on Croatian Radio and Radio 101.

His debut novel Drenje (Zagreb, 2011) was nominated for a number of regional literary awards, his second novel Viljevo won Croatian Writers Society Prize Janko Polić Kamov for 2014, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Award for Literature 2014 and the 2015 European Union Prize for Literature, while his novel Curfew was awarded with 2016 Josip and Ivan Kozarac Prize for book of the year.

 

 

Ludwig Bauer

Ludwig Bauer (Sisak, 1941) is an author, scholar, screenwriter, public opinion analyst, columnist, literary critic, translator and editor. He graduated in Slavic Studies in Zagreb, continuing his studies in Bratislava and Prag, later working as a professor in Zagreb, London and Washington, editor-in-chief of the publishing house Globus and literary journal Naša knjiga.

In addition to having published many successful stories for children, he is especially respected as an author of award-winning novels, such as Pearls for Caroline (1997, Partiture for Magic Flute (1999), and Seroquel or the Curious Mr Kubitschek (2015). For his novel Homeland, Oblivion (2010) he won the prestigious regional award Meša Selimović, Fran Galović Prize, and Kiklop Award for best novel.

In 2010, for his anthology of the contemporary Slovak poetry The Black Violin, he received the highest Slovak award Hviezdoslav Prize in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Renato Baretić

Renato Baretić (Zagreb, 1963) is a journalist and writer. He has an incomplete degree in Comparative Literature and Phonetics at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, having also briefly studied political sciences and journalism. Baretić used to work as a warehouse assistant, assistant repairman of household appliances, assistant tile-layer, sales agent, street stall seller and worker in a factory of textile machines.

He periodically works as a film and TV scriptwriter, copywriter, journalist and author of questions for the most popular Croatian TV quiz shows. Co-founder and art director of the storytelling festival Pričigin in Split and former leader of the movement for cultural revival of Croatian islands. Since 2014, instructor of creative writing in the Split-based “House of Creative Writing” and also throughout Croatia, from high schools to prisons. Member of the Croatian Journalists Association, Croatian PEN Centre and Croatian Writers’ Association, he attended literary residency programs in Belgium, Austria, Turkey, Germany, North Macedonia, and Slovenia.

Baretić was a co-screenwriter of the successful Croatian TV series Black & White World and The Diary of the Great Perica. His illustrated children’s fiction Little Wolf’s Trouble has been adapted for theatre (2017, The Mala Scena Theatre, Zagreb, directed by Morana Dolenc) and won several awards, while his stage play Rejected performed 180 times in two years. Croatian Radiotelevision adapted two of his novels into radio-drama: Tell Me About Her (2019, directed by Petar Vujačić) and Last Hand (2022, directed by Hana Veček).

Baretić’s novel Eighth Commissioner won five major national prizes for fiction: Kiklop, August Senoa, Ivan Goran Kovacic, Vladimir Nazor, Ksaver Sandor Gjalski. French translation, by Chloé Billon, was awarded INALCO Institute in Paris Readers’ Prize 2017 and shortlisted for the Féstival des Littératures Européennes Award in Cognac. Eighth Commissioner also received two theatrical adaptations: Croatian National Theatre Split in 2005 (directed by Ivica Kunčević), and Gavella Theatre Zagreb in 2013 (directed by Saša Anočić). A movie adaptation (2018, directed by Ivan Salaj) won several national and regional awards, including one for the best screenplay at FEST in Belgrade, and was a Croatian candidate for OSCAR in Best Foreign Language Category.

His works have been translated into Albanian, English, French, German, Macedonian, Russian, Slovenian, and Ukrainian.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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