Tatjana Peruško

Tatjana Peruško was born in Pula in 1966. She is a full professor with tenure and head of the Chair of Italian Literature at the Department of Italian Studies of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, where she teaches modern and contemporary Italian literature. In addition to three books of her own, she has devoted more than 17 scholarly and professional papers in Croatian and Italian to 20th-century Italian prose. She is co-editor of an anthology of Italian short stories entitled „Animalije“. In her book „U labirintu teorija. O fantastici i fantastičnom“, she explores the theory of fantastic literature, and she also edited the anthology of theoretical texts „O fantastici i fantastičnom. Izbor teorijskih rasprava o fantastičnoj književnosti“. She was a co-initiator and member of the editorial board of the European Short Story Festival. She is a member of the Croatian Literary Translators’ Association. From Italian, she has translated, among other works, several books by Italo Calvino and Antonio Tabucchi, as well as more recent texts by Emanuele Trevi and Sandro Veronesi. She has received several awards for her scholarly and professional work.