Ivan Sršen

Ivan Sršen was born in 1979 in Zagreb, where he completed elementary school and the Classical Gymnasium. 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 works in the fields of music, politics, economics, and literature. He publishes journalistic articles, reports, and short prose, and works as a literary translator from English and Slovene. He is the author of the short story collection Skela – bajke iz automata za kavu (The Ferry – Fairy Tales from the Coffee Machine), the cultural-historical study Povijest zagrebačkih knjižnica (The History of Zagreb Libraries, co-authored with Daniel Glavan), the novel Harmatan, and the book Halo Bing – intervju s Maxom Bunkerom (Hello Bing – An Interview with Max Bunker). He edited the short story collection Zagreb Noir, published in the USA (Akashic Books, 2015). His novel Harmatan has been translated into Greek, Slovenian, and English. Since 2007, he has been the co-owner and editor at Sandorf, a publishing house and literary agency representing Croatian writers abroad. He lives and works in Zagreb.