Alejo Carpentier y Valmont (Spanish pronunciation: [karpanˈtje], French pronunciation: [kaʁpɑ̃tje]; December 26, 1904 – April 24, 1980) was a Cuban writer, essayist, and music expert who had a major impact on Latin American literature during its well-known “boom” period. He was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, to French and Russian parents, but he grew up in Havana, Cuba. Even though he was born in Europe, he always considered himself Cuban.
Reinaldo Arenas was born on July 16, 1943, and died on December 7, 1990. He was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright who strongly opposed Fidel Castro, the Cuban Revolution, and the Cuban government. His book, Before Night Falls, describes important events in the Cuban dissident movement and his time as a political prisoner.
Zoran Krušvar is a Croatian psychologist and writer of science fiction and fantasy stories. He was born on April 9, 1977, in Rijeka. He has won four SFERA awards: in 2002 for Igra, in 2003 for Brodovi u tami, in 2007 for Izvršitelji nauma Gospodnjeg, and in 2008 for Tako biti mora.
Julijana Matanović was born on April 6, 1959. She is a Bosnian Croat who writes short stories and novels. She is a professor at the University of Zagreb’s Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Dubravka Ugrešić (Croatian: [dûbraːvka ûgreʃit͡ɕ]; 27 March 1949 – 17 March 2023) was a writer from Yugoslavia, Croatia, and the Netherlands. She graduated from the University of Zagreb and lived in Amsterdam since 1996. She continued to see herself as a writer from Yugoslavia.
Tomislav Ladan (June 25, 1932 – September 12, 2008) was a Croatian writer, critic, translator, and novelist. Ladan was born in Ivanjica, Serbia, and grew up in Bosnia and Herzegovina, his homeland, where he studied at the Philosophical Faculty in Sarajevo. Because of his strong Croatian identity, he faced difficulty finding permanent work in the cultural field of Bosnia, which was mostly controlled by Serbs at the time.
Vesna Krmpotić (17 June 1932 – 21 August 2018) was a Croatian writer and translator. She was born in Dubrovnik and graduated from the University of Zagreb with a degree in English and psychology. In New Delhi, India, she studied the Bengali language.
Aralica was born in Promina near Knin. He completed teacher training school and studied at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Zadar. From 1953, he worked as a high school teacher in small, rural villages in northern and central Dalmatia.
Zlata Kolarić-Kišur (29 October 1894 – 24 September 1990) was a Croatian writer. She was born in Slavonski Brod but moved with her family to Požega. She wrote about her childhood in her book My Golden Valley (Moja Zlatna dolina).
Miroslav Krleža (pronounced [mǐrɔ̝slav̞ kř̩le̞ʒa]; July 7, 1893 – December 29, 1981) was a Croatian writer who is widely regarded as one of the most important figures of the 20th century. He wrote famous works in many types of writing, such as poetry (The Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh, 1936), plays (Messrs. Glembay, 1929), short stories (The Croatian God Mars, 1922), novels (The Return of Philip Latinowicz, 1932; On the Edge of Reason, 1938), and a personal diary.