Vlaho Bogišić

Vlaho Bogišić, born in 1960 in Dubrovnik, is a lexicographer and writer. He spent his childhood in Konavle, completed his MA in literature in Zagreb, and received his PhD in Novi Sad. Since the beginning of the 1980s, he has lived in Zagreb, where he entered the literary and cultural life with the Quorum generation, he was one of the founders and editors of the Quorum editions, and he co-authored his first book, critical readings Četiri dimenzije sumnje (1998). He edited and prepared a number of editions of Miroslav Krleža’s works (Marginalije, the book of short stories Hiljadu i jedna smrt, the book of correspondence Bela dijete drago, Krleža’s chronology Krležino stoljeće in the theme issue of the magazine Gradac, fragments of the diary Hiljadudevetstotinašezdesete). In his lexicographic work, the first Leksikon hrvatske književnosti, which he edited and co-authored, and Istarska enciklopedija, which he started with Miroslav Bertoša, stand out. He is the author of the novel Nekrolog za M., and his book of essays Nedovršeni Bogišićev ustav i druga međuplemenska razmatranja was awarded as the best work of non-fictional prose in Serbia (2019).