Slobodan najder

Slobodan najder graduated with a Philosophy and English degree at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. He is a writer, publicist, playwright and has also worked as a columnist for several newspapers. najder published his first full-length novel Morendo in 2012 and The Brass Age has won numerous awards including the Me a Selimovic Award and the Mirko Kovae Award.

Celia Hawkesworth translates from the Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian. Among her translations are works by Dubravka Ugre ic and Nobel Prize Winner Ivo Andric. Her translation of Da a Drndic's Belladonna was a finalist for the inaugural E.B.R.D. Prize and her translation of E.E.G. by Drndic won the American Best Translation Award.