Although uniformly recognized as one of the most talented poets of Croatian postwar literature, Danijel Dragojevic has not become a widely known public personality. Rather, he has decided to let his poetry speak for him. The high quality of his works, apparent in his first collection published in 1961, has remained a constant throughout his career. More than any of his contemporaries he has shown a profound interest in prose-as-poetry, continually experimenting and redefining this genre over several decades. The highly individualized tone of his works is simultaneously philosophical and lyrical, addressing many of the crises of humanity in the twentieth century.

Dragojevic was born on 28 January 1934 in Vela Luka on the island of Korcula in the Adriatic Sea. He finished high school in Dubrovnik and obtained his bachelor's degree in art history at the College of Philosophy, University of Zagreb. His first verses were published in 1956 in the...