Vesna Biga, poetess, novelist and fiction writer, born in Zagreb in 1948.
She graduated in Psychology and Phonetics from the Faculty of Philosophy, University in Zagreb. Her poems, and stories have been included in many comprehensive surveys and anthologies in Croatia and abroad, and translated into the Italian, English, Russian, Turkish, Slovenian, Macedonian, Esperanto and other languages.

She was awarded the Goran’s Wreath in 2022 and Večernji list prize for a short story Insomnia of Mrs. KS in 1983.

Published books:

Poems:

The Way of the Poem, 1996

Shadowing My Gaze,  2001

Four Fears, 2001

Under the Eyelids of the Other Race, 2004

Vidok (Eyewitness) Skin, 2006

Shadow on the leash, 2009

Women on the road, 2013

White panic, 2013

I have to look at the sea, 2018

From Body to ward, 2019

If you don’t tell anyone about me, Selected poems, 2024

Stories:

Cautious Fairy Tales, Zagreb, 1981

Pictures from a New Memory, 1987

Soul’s Garden, 1995, 2003

The Man Who Craved a Miracle, 1998

Ten Arrivals, 2009

Novels:

At Second Hand, 1983