Boris Dežulović

Boris Dežulović was born in 1964 in Split. Since 1990, he has worked as a journalist for Nedjeljna Dalmacija, and from 1991 as a war correspondent and commentator for Slobodna Dalmacija. Together with Viktor Ivančić and Predrag Lucić, he edited the satirical supplement “Feral Tribune” in Nedjeljna from 1988 and in Slobodna Dalmacija from 1991. After Slobodna Dalmacija was taken over by the HDZ in 1993, they spun off “Feral Tribune” into an independent satirical-political weekly. At the end of 1999, he left “Feral Tribune” and became a columnist for Globus and a contributor to other publications of Europa Press Holding, leaving the group in 2015 following the termination of his collaboration with Slobodna Dalmacija. Since then, he has worked for Novosti, the weekly publication of the Serbian National Council. He is also a long-time regular columnist for Ljubljana’s Dnevnik and the N1 portal. Dežulović has twice been named Journalist of the Year by the Croatian Journalists' Association, in 2004 and 2022. In 2014, he received the European Press Award in London for the Best Opinion Article. He has published or edited several prose and non-fiction works, as well as a poetry collection titled Songs from Lora (“Pjesme iz Lore”). His novel “Christkind” won the Jutarnji list Award for the Best Prose Work of the Year. He lives and works in a small fishing village between Trieste and Dubrovnik, where he illegally distills brandy, makes wine, catches fish, and occasionally writes things down.