Ivan Sršen

Ivan Sršen was born in Zagreb in 1979, where he completed elementary school and the Classical grammar gchool. In 2004, he graduated in History and General Linguistics from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Since 2001, he has worked in bookselling and publishing, and since 2004, as an editor for several publishing houses. He has edited numerous non-fiction publications in the fields of music, politics, economics, and literature. Sršen publishes journal articles, reports, and short prose in domestic and international magazines and works as a literary translator from English. He has authored the short story collection Skela – bajke iz automata za kavu, the cultural-historical study Povijest zagrebačkih knjižnica (co-authored with Daniel Glavan), the novel Harmatan, and the book Halo Bing – intervju s Maxom Bunkerom. He edited a collection of short stories Zagreb Noir, which was published in the USA by Akashic Books in 2015. His novel Harmatan has been translated into Greek and Slovenian. Since 2007, Sršen has been a co-owner and editor at the publishing house and agency Sandorf, which represents Croatian authors abroad. He lives and works in Zagreb.