Nikola Đuretić

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Nikola Đuretić, born July 24, 1949, in Osijek, Croatia, is a Croatian writer and publisher. He moved to Zagreb with his family when he was five and studied English and Comparative Literature. His first short stories appeared in the magazine Polet in 1968. From 1975 to 1978 he worked as an editor in publishing. In March 1978 he went into exile and lived in London for more than twenty years, working for the BBC as a program assistant and later as a senior producer. He returned to Croatia in 1999 after retiring. He is a member of the Croatian Writers’ Association and Matrix Croatica, and he led the Zagreb Literary Talks from 2008 to 2011. Đuretić has published more than twenty books of prose, poetry, short stories, essays and columns, and he has translated many prominent English and Irish writers, including Salman Rushdie, Penelope Lively, Julian Barnes, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Beryl Bainbridge, Louis de Bernières, Hugo Williams, Edward Gordon Craig, Desmond Egan and others.