Ivan Dobnik - Vilenica

Edo Popović se je rodil leta 1957 v
Livnem v Bosni in Hercegovini. Od
leta 1968 živi v Zagrebu. Diplomiral
je iz primerjalne književnosti na
Filozofski fakulteti Univerze v Zagrebu,
kjer je študiral tudi jugoslovanske
književnosti in hrvaščino. Prozaist in
vojni poročevalec (med 1991 in 1995)
je bil tudi sousta novitelj in urednik hrvaške
literarne revije Quorum. Prozo
je začel objavljati leta 1978. Njegovi
prvi samostojni zbirki Ponoćni boogie
(Polnočni boogie, 1987) so sledila še
druga dela, kot je zbirka avtobio grafske
proze Kameni pas (Kamniti pes, 2001),
trije romani: Izlaz Zagreb jug (Izhod
Zagreb jug, 2003), ki je pri Študentski
založbi v Ljubljani izšel leta 2004 v
prevodu Dušana Čatra, Igrači (Igralci,
2006) in Oči (2007) ter njegova aktualna
zbirka dokumentarne proze z naslovom
Priručnik za hodače (Priročnik
za pohodnike, 2009). Njegova dela so
prevedena v albanščino, angleščino,
bolgarščino, nemščino in slovenščino.
Edo Popović was born in 1957 in
Livno, Bosnia and Herzegovina . He
has been living in Zageb since 1968 .
He graduated in comparative literature
and also studied Yugoslav literature and
Croatian language at the Faculty of Arts
at the University of Zagreb . The prose
writer and war correspondent between
1991 and 1995, was also the co-founder
and editor of the Croatian Quorum
literary magazine . He began publishing
his prose in 1978 . His first collection
of prose, Ponoćni boogie (Midnight
Boogie, 1987), was followed by works
such as the collection of autobiographical
prose Kameni pas (Stone Dog, 2001),
the novels Izlaz Zagreb jug (Exit Zagreb
South, 2003); which was translated into
Slovene by Dušan Čater and published
by Študentska založba in Ljubljana in
2004; Igrači (The Players, 2006), and
Oči (Kalda, 2007), and his most recent
book of documentary narrative titled
Priručnik za hodače (A Manual for
Walkers, 2009) . His works have been
translated into Albanian, Bulgarian,
English, German, and Slovene .