Marinko Koščec
Marinko Koščec (born 1967 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia) is a Croatian writer. Life and Work. Koščec studied English and French language and literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Zagreb, graduated with diploma-thesis on "Man in search of his double - the world seen through the work of J. M. G. Le Clézio" (L'Homme en quête de son double – le monde vu à travers l’oeuvre de J. M. G. Le Clézio, 1992), then he continued his studies at the Ohio State University (1989) and the Institut Catholique de Paris (1990), obtained his magister degree with thesis on  Figuration of the unsaid in the contemporary novel (Figuration du non-dit dans le roman contemporaine, 1995) at Diderot University Paris, and completed as PhD with thesis on "Poetry of Michel Houellebecq. Narrative, stylistic and contextual study of opus" (Poetika Michela Houellebecqa. Naratološka, stilistička i kontekstualna studija opusa, 2005) in Zagreb. Koščec is assistant professor of French literature at Department of Romance studies of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and he also worked as freelance editor at SysPrint publishing from 2008 to 2011. He is author of seven novels, laureate of V.B.Z. Award 2003, and Croatian translator of  the novels Whatever and Atomised, his novels "A Handful of Sand" and "Centimetre of Happiness" has been published in English (2013) and Dutch (2014) translation.