Luko Paljetak

Luko Paljetak (19 August 1943 – 12 May 2024, Dubrovnik) was a Croatian writer and translator. He graduated in 1968 from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zadar with a thesis on Ante Cettineo’s literary opus. He worked in Zadar as a dramaturge and director at the Puppet Theatre, as an assistant teacher at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and as an editor of the magazine Zadarska revija. Since 1978 he lived in Dubrovnik, and edited the magazine Dubrovnik. The Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts made him a full member in 1997. He was one of the most prolific Croatian contemporary writers, with over 150 books published until 2019. He published around forty poetry collections, ten children’s poetry collections, about the same number of print and poetry portfolios, two novels, and he also wrote plays, radio plays, fairy tales, children’s and puppet plays, haiku, essays, theatre reviews, literary and historical studies and essays, and studies on puppet theatre. The winner of the Goranov vijenac Award for poetry (1995) and the Vladimir Nazor Lifetime Achievement Award (2012).