Boris Dežulović

Boris Dežulović was born in 1964 in Split. Since 1990, he has worked as a journalist for Nedjeljna Dalmacija (Sunday Dalmacija), and since 1991 as a war reporter and commentator for Slobodna Dalmacija (Free Dalmacija). From 1988, together with Viktor Ivančić and Predrag Lucić, he edited the satirical supplement Feral Tribune in Nedjeljna Dalmacija, and from 1991 in Slobodna Dalmacija. After HDZ’s takeover of the Split newspaper company in 1993, they separated and established Feral Tribune as an independent satirical-political weekly. At the end of 1999, he left Feral and became a columnist for Globus and a contributor to other publications of the Europa Press Holding, from which he departed after his collaboration with Slobodna Dalmacija was terminated in 2015. Since then, he has worked for Novosti, the weekly of the Serbian National Council. He has also been a longtime regular columnist for the Ljubljana newspaper Dnevnik and the N1 portal. He was named Journalist of the Year twice by the Croatian Journalists’ Association, in 2004 and 2022, and in 2014 he received the European Press Award in London for the best newspaper commentary. He has published or edited several works of prose and journalism, as well as the poetry collection Pjesme iz Lore (Poems from Lora). His novel Christkind received 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 rakija, makes wine, fishes, and occasionally writes things down.