Marko Pogačar
From 19 January to 9 February 2026

The Croatian author, publisher, and literary critic Marko Pogačar was born in Split in 1984. After studying comparative literature and history at the University of Zagreb, he began writing for the cultural and literary reviews Quorum and Zarez. He has published a number of collections of poetry, as well as essays and prose, which have been translated into a dozen languages and have been singled out for both Croatian and international awards. He has edited two anthologies of contemporary Croatian poetry and is active as a literary critic. He has taken part in some twenty fellowships and residency programs, including Civitella Ranieri, LCB, Récollets-Paris, Landis & Gyr, Lyrik Kabinett and DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm. His writing often returns to such themes as contemporary world weariness and the force shown by young people. His literary travelogue through Latin America, Neon South (translated by Mirza Purić), was published by Sandorf Passage in 2022. Seven of his poems have been published in English translation at the Poetry International website (poetryinternation.com).