Igor Štiks

Who is Igor Štiks?

Igor Štiks is a writer and scholar presently living in Edinburgh, UK. He has published two novels. A Castla in Romanie has been translated into English, German and Spanish and won the award for best first novel in Croatia in 2000. The English translation was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for 2006.

Igor Štiks spend his childhood in Sarajevo, but lived in Zagreb, Croatia since the Bosnian War started in 1992. He studied comparative literature and philosophy at the University of Zagreb. He later moved to Paris, where he received a master degree in Philosophy at the University of Paris.

Since 1996 he published articles, essays, literary works and translations in the Croatian media, as well as in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro, and Macedonia.

From 1997 to 2001 he worked at Zarez, first as a member of the editorial staff of the cultural pages, and then as a reporter on cultural and social issues.