Damir Šodan (Split, 1964), a poet, translator, editor and award-winning playwright. Studied English and history at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. He has published about twenty works, including an anthology of contemporary Croatian “urban realist” poetry, Drugom stranom (2010), as well as numerous translations of mainly Anglo-American poetry (Charles Bukowski, Raymond Carver, Charles Simic, Leonard Cohen, Frank O’Hara etc.). He is the editor of translated poetry in Croatian Writers’ Association’s Poezija magazine and a member of Croatian PEN Centre. For more than two decades he has worked as a translated for United Nations in the Netherlands, and he is currently a freelance author and literary translator. He lives in The Hague and Split.