Helena Janečić was born in 1979 in Osijek, Croatia. She was already drawing comics for the school newspaper when she was a pupil. She later concentrated on painting, but always found her way back to comics. She studied art at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, until 2003 and earned
Dubravka Ugrešić was born in 1949 in Kutina, Yugoslavia (now Croatia). She studied Comparative Literature and Russian Language and Literature at the University of Zagreb, and worked for over 20 years at the Institute for Literary Theory. Dubravka Ugrešić has translated into Croatian works by Daniil Kharms and Boris Pilnyak,
Ece Temelkuran was born in Izmir, Turkey, in 1973. Before graduating in law from Ankara University in 1995, she worked as a journalist for Turkey’s oldest newspaper »Cumhuriyet« and in 1996 published her first book »Bütün Kadınların Kafası Karışıktır« [tr: All Women Are Confused], in which she denounces the high
Dalibor Marković was born in 1975. The Croatian poet and beatboxer combines German lyrics and rhythm in an international mixture. Since 2002 he has been writing texts for his stage performance. Dalibor is a co-founder of the Spoken Word collective WordAlert and was casted by Michael Lentz for the premiere
Bora Ćosić was born in Zagreb in 1932. He moved to Belgrade in 1937 and studied philosophy. In the 1950s he worked as an editor and as a translator from Russian. His first novel »Kuca lopova« (1956; tr. The house of thieves), a surrealistic analysis of Yugoslavia – put him
