Zdravko Zima

Zdravko Zima was born in 1948 in Malinska on the island of Krk. He completed his studies in Yugoslav Languages and Literature and completed all the requirements for a degree in Sociology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. He has published literary criticism, feuilletons, essays, commentaries and other texts in the most important Croatian newspapers and magazines. He was an editor and columnist for the weekly magazine Danas and an editor of the magazines The Bridge, Lettre International, Cicero and Novi Omanut. From 2000 to 2013, he worked as a freelancer and regular columnist for the Rijeka-based Novi list. He published the books „Noćna strana uma“, „Zvjezdana prašina“, „Zagreb je kriv za sve“, „Purgeri u purgatoriju“, „Porok pisanja“, „Zimsko ljetovanje“, „Močvara“, „Prikazi, prikaze“, „Gondolijer na Vltavi“, „Metak u petak“, „Lovac u labirintu“, „Život je tabloid“, „Bordel u plamenu“, „Adam i Eva u raju“, „Ekstraeseji“, „Dnevnik jednog skribomana“, „Dnevnik jednog mitomana“ and „Putnik s lažnim pasošem“. He prepared books by Nedjeljko Fabrio, Irena Vrkljan, Feđa Šehović, Veselko Tenžera, Edvard Kocbek and others for publication. An extensive selection of Zima’s work in German was published by the magazine Relations (double issue 1–2/2011). He currently serves as adviser for culture to the President of the Republic of Croatia, Zoran Milanović. He has received several honours and awards for his work.