Zoran Bognar
Zoran Bognar (Serbian-Cyrillic: Зоран Богнар; born 30 January 1965 in Vukovar, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian poet and writer. Life and work. Zoran Bognar (his Hungarian surname means Wheelwright) is considered to be one of the most creative and renowned representatives of contemporary Serbian poetry. More than 300 of his essays and literary reviews have already been published in many Serbian literary journals and newspapers such as Borba, Dnevnik and Politika, and more than over 200 essays, reviews and studies have also been published about his work in recent decades, also a monograph "Athletic pilgrimage  to the Elysian fields of Zoran Bognar" (Atletsko hodočašće nad jelisejskim vodama i poljima Zorana Bognara, 2002) by Vladan Panković (teacher) and Nikica Banić (poet), both from Inđija. Bognar has been working as literary editor of the publishing house "Dereta" for several years; he is current president of jury of the "Miroslav Dereta Award" since 2006, president of the "Foundation for Preservation of Fine Arts – Ars Longa", member of the Association of Writers of Serbia and the PEN of Bosnia Hercegovina. The editions "New Deluge", "New Noah’s Ark", "Elysian Trilogy" and "Constellations Under The Skin" have also been published  in Italian (1995, 1997,1998 and 2001), Spanish (2002), French (2002) and Macedonian (2006) translations, selected poems in English and German editions (2000, 2003 and 2015), in the "International Poetry Review" (2003) of the University of North Carolina, in German, Polish and French anthologies (1999, 2008, 2011), in the Austrian and German literary journals "manuskripte" (1999) and "Akzente" (2000), and in "Ariel" (2004) in Swedish. In 2002, the poet was Artist in Residence of "Villa Waldberta" in Feldafing. In addition to numerous Serbian literary awards, he received the Italian "Vannelli Award 1997" of the same named publishing house in Verona (Edizione  Vannelli), the Montenegrin "Mediterranean Lion 1998" and the German "Hubert Burda Award 1999". He lives in Belgrade.