Miljenko Jergović

Miljenko Jergović (1966), born in Sarajevo, has lived in Zagreb since the summer of 1993. He is a storyteller, novelist, essayist, journalist, and poet. His prose and poetry books have been published in about thirty languages, beginning with the Italian translation of his book Sarajevski Marlboro (Sarajevo Marlboro), published by Quodlibet, Macerata, 1995. The book was translated by Ljiljana Avirović. He has received awards for individual works as well as for his overall contribution to literature in all the countries of the former Yugoslavia and across Europe. Among these are the Angelus Award in Wrocław in 2012 for the best book by a Central European author (Srda pjeva, u sumrak, na Duhove [ Srda Sings at Twilight on Pentecost]), the Njegoš Award in Cetinje in 2015 for a book and the overall work of a South Slavic author (Rod [The Kin]), the Georg Dehio Prize, Berlin 2018, the Honorary Award of Austrian publishers and booksellers for tolerance in thought and action, Vienna 2022, and the International Vilenica Literary Prize, Ljubljana 2024.