Neven Ušumović

Neven Ušumović was born in Zagreb in 1972 and grew up in Subotica. He graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb with a degree in philosophy, comparative literature and Hungarian studies. In addition, he also studied Turkology. He has published four collections of short stories and a novel. He was included in the anthology Best European Fiction (2010), edited for Dalkey Archive Press by Aleksandar Hemon. His short story collection Zlata opeklina (2019) was awarded the Kamov Prize by the Croatian Writers’ Association. He has translated Béla Hamvas, Ferenc Molnár, Péter Esterházy and Ádám Bodor into Croatian.  He lives and works in Istria.