Poets

Ivan Herceg (1970), poet, prose writer, and editor, was born in Krapina, Croatia. He holds a BA in Croatian Language and Literature and South-Slavic Philology from the University of Zagreb. He is the editor-in-chief of the Zagreb-based journal Poezija, the editor-in-chief of Poezija Editions, and the organiser of the SUR (Stih u regiji / Poetry in the Region) Poetry Festival. He is the author of six books of poetry: Our Other Names (Zagreb, 1994); Night on Asphalt (Karlovac, 1996); Photographs of Earthly Sighs (Zagreb, 1997); Angels in Mourning (Zagreb, 2004); Irregularities (Zagreb, 2007); and When Will Babylon Arrive (Zagreb, 2013). He received several awards for his poetic work, most notably the Goran Prize for young poets, the Zdravko Pucak Prize, and the Rikard Jorgovanić Award. He also published Naked (Zagreb, 2011), a collection of short stories. His poetry has been widely anthologised and translated into a dozen languages, including Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Chinese. His selected poems, Koliko Naju Bo Ostalo, were published in Slovenian by Hiša Poezije (Ljubljana, 2009); Warsaw, Warsaw in Polish by Wydawnictwo Miedzymorze (Gdansk, 2014); Nepravilnosti in Bulgarian by DA Publishing House (Sofia, 2014); and Noćni ljudi in Macedonian by PNV Publishing (Skopje, 2021). He participated in many international poetry festivals, including Poetry International (Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2009); Beijing Poetry Festival (Beijing, China, 2011); Chapbook Festival (New York, USA, 2012); Voix Vives de Mediterranee en Mediterranee (Sete, France, 2014) and International Festival of Arts Trans/Missions – Three Seas (Rzeszow, Poland, 2022). He is a member of the Croatian Writers Society and Croatian P.E.N. Centre. Ivan Herceg lives in Zagreb and works as an editor for the Croatian daily Jutarnji List.