Miljenko Jergović

Miljenko Jergović was born in Sarajevo in 1966 and has lived in Zagreb since the summer of 1993. He is a short-story writer, novelist, essayist, journalist and poet. His prose and poetry books have been published in close to thirty languages, beginning with the Italian translation of „Sarajevski Marlboro“, published by Quodlibet in Macerata in 1995. He has received awards for individual works and for his overall literary achievement throughout the countries of the former Yugoslavia and across Europe. Among others, he received the Angelus Award in Wrocław in 2012 for the best book by a Central European writer (the novel „Srda pjeva, u sumrak, na Duhove“); the Njegoš Award in Cetinje in 2015 for his novel “Rod” and overall body of work by a South Slavic writer; the „Georg Dehio“ Award in Berlin in 2018; the Austrian Publishers’ and Booksellers’ Honorary Award for Tolerance in Thought and Action in Vienna in 2022; the Vilenica International Literary Award in Ljubljana in 2024; the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding in 2026; and the Aleksandar Tišma International Literary Award in 2026.