Zlatko Crnković (11 May 1931 – 2 November 2013) was a

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n literary

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, writer, critic and editor.

Biography

Born in the village of

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near Požega in eastern Croatia, Crnković moved to the

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for secondary school, and later enrolled at Zagreb

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where he majored in English and

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s and literatures. He also studied

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in the 1961–62 academic year. Crnković authored many translations from German, English,

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and French. Over the course of several decades he served as editor at Znanje publishing house and edited 260 titles of the highly successful fiction series called HIT, in addition to about 160 titles in ITD series, about 80 books in the Evergrin series, and a number of anthologies. Although officially retired in 1994, he continued to translate and edit books for various publishers, mainly for the Zagreb-based publishing house Algoritam, which published a series of fiction titles called "Zlatko Crnković presents". He edited 50 books for the series. After retirement, he decided to clean up the documentation he collected over the years, which has resulted in a series of essays in 1998 ''Knjige moga života'' ("Books of my life") and selected letters exchanged with Ivan Aralica ''Pisac i njegov urednik'' ("Writer and His Editor"). He published a memoir
Prošla baba s kolačima
' (2002) and a collection of miscellaneous writings ''Knjigositnice'' (2003). ''Knjiga snova'' ("Book of Dreams") was published in 2003, and a selection of letters, exchanged with Ivan Kušan, in 2006 under the title
Oko Sljemena i globusa
'. He received the main prize of the Croatian Association of Literary Translators in 1971 and 1986, and the Kiklop award in 2006 as the editor of the year.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Crnkovic, Zlatko 1931 births 2013 deaths Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb alumni People from Požega, Croatia 20th-century Croatian translators