Sinan Gudžević

Sinan Gudžević was born in 1953 in Grab on Mount Golija, in the municipality of Novi Pazar. He is a writer, philologist and translator. He studied Classical and Romance Philology in Belgrade, Pisa and Munich. He has published the poetry collections „Građa za pripovetke“ and „Rimski epigrami“, as well as the prose and essay collections „Zvijezde nad Brazilom“, „Demon po imenu Sutra“, „Bendžo u Grabu“, „Penelopin razboj“, „Put u Živogošće“ and „Sarajevosti“. He translates from Latin, Ancient Greek, German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese and Slovenian. From Latin, he has translated „Noćno putovanje Poslanika Muhammeda“, „O laži“ and „Protiv laži“ by Aurelius Augustine, as well as epigrams by Martial and several Neo-Latin authors. From Greek, he has translated the didactic poem by Gregory of Nazianzus „Protiv kaćipernih žena“ and hundreds of epigrams from the Palatine Anthology, and from German, the book by Emilio Hidalgo-Serna „O humanističkoj misli Juana Luisa Vivesa“, as well as a selection of poems by Jochen Kelter, published in the book „Dogodine u Sarajevu“. Into Italian, together with Raffaele Marzano, he translated and published in Salerno two poetry collections by Izet Sarajlić, „Qualcuno ha suonato“ and „Libro degli adii“, as well as his own „Epigrammi romani“, which was also published in Petra Kordman's German metrical translation („Römische Epigramme“). He lives in Zagreb.