Vlaho Bogišić

Vlaho Bogišić, born in 1960 in Dubrovnik, is a lexicographer and writer. He spent his childhood in Konavle, completed his studies in literature with a master’s degree in Zagreb, and earned his doctorate in Novi Sad. Since the early 1980s, he has lived in Zagreb, where he entered the literary and cultural scene alongside the Quorum generation. He was among the founders and editors of the Quorum editions, in which his first book, a collection of critical readings Četiri dimenzije sumnje (Four Dimensions of Doubt, 1998), was published in co-authorship. He has also edited and prepared several works by Miroslav Krleža, including Marginalije (Marginalia), the collection of novellas Hiljadu i jedna smrt (One Thousand and One Death), the correspondence Bela dijete drago (Bela, Dear Child), the chronology Krležino stoljeće (Krleža’s Century) in a special issue of the journal Gradac, and fragments of Krleža’s diary Hiljadudevetstotinašezdesete (The Year 1960). In his lexicographic work, Bogišić is particularly noted for the first Leksikon hrvatske književnosti (Lexicon of Croatian Literature), which he edited and co-authored, and the Istarska enciklopedija (Istrian Encyclopedia), which he launched together with Miroslav Bertoša. He is also the author of the novels Dnevnik zaljubljenika u Konavle (Diary of a Konavle Lover) and Nekrolog za M. (Obituary for M.), while his essay collection Nedovršeni Bogišićev ustav i druga međuplemenska razmatranja (The Unfinished Bogišić Constitution and Other Intertribal Considerations) was awarded the prize for the best non-fiction work in Serbia in 2019.