Boris Domagoj Biletić

Boris Domagoj Biletić was born in Pula in 1957. He is a writer and scholar. He completed primary school, secondary school and the Pedagogical Academy in his hometown, and graduated, obtained his master’s degree and doctorate at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb. He has been publishing since 1977, mainly poetry, essays, studies and criticism. He is also an editor, publicist, anthologist, polemicist, and organizer of literary and cultural programmes... He is the co-founder of the Istrian Branch of the Croatian Writers’ Association (1990) and co-founder of Šoljan’s Days (1996). In 1996, he founded the literary, art and culture journal Nova Istra, which he continues to edit to this day; he is also the initiator of the international Pula Days of Essays (since 2003) and the e-journal for literary criticism Stav (2018)… Banned in his youth, but has later received numerous literary awards for poetry, scholarship, essay writing, overall contribution to Croatian poetry, and more. Selected critical literature on Biletić comprises more than one hundred entries, and almost all of the more prominent Croatian critics, fellow writers and others have written about his work. He is a recipient of the Order of Danica Hrvatska with the image of Marko Marulić (1996) and the Medal of the City of Rovinj (1997). His works have been translated into approximately twenty languages.