Ana Brnardić

Ana Brnardić was born in 1980 in Zagreb. She has a degree  in Comparative Literature and Croatian Language and Literature from the University of Zagreb and a master’s degree in violin from the Academy of Music in Zagreb. For her poetry collections, she has received numerous literary awards – the „Goran“ Award for Young Poets, the Croatian Writers’ Association’s „Slavić“ Award for the best literary debut, the „Kvirin“ Award for Young Poets, and the City of Sisak Award, and she was a two-time finalist for the „Tin Ujević“ Poetry Award. She has published the poetry books „Pisaljka nekog mudraca“, „Valcer zmija“, „Postanak ptica“, „Uzbrdo“ and „Vuk i breza“, as well as the short novel „Jezero“. Her books have been translated and published in Romania, Sweden, France and Slovakia. As a member of the Versopolis poetry platform, her poems have also been translated and published in booklets in Slovenia, North Macedonia, France, Sweden, Slovakia and Greece. In addition to writing, she also translates contemporary Romanian literature and has so far, together with Adrian Oproiu, translated works by authors such as Max Blecher, Urmuz, Varužan Vosganjan…