Albert
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Ivica Prtenjaca was born in 1969 in Rijeka, where he studied Croatian studies at the Faculty of Pedagogy. Since the age of fifteen, he has worked as a water meter reader, gas collector, ice cream delivery man, warehouseman, construction worker, gallery owner, fire extinguisher repairman, shopkeeper, bookseller, marketing manager, and spokesperson. He lives and works in Zagreb. He writes poetry, prose, drama texts, newspaper columns, and often hosts literary festivals, promotions, and book fairs. Some of his poems, cycles, or books have been translated into about twenty languages. He has participated in about twenty European poetry festivals and meetings as an invited Croatian representative. He has been included in several anthologies, selections, reviews, and histories of Croatian literature. He is the president of the Goran's Spring committee. On the Third Channel of Croatian Radio, he hosts and writes the shows Moj izbor and Jutro na Trecem. He has published: Pisanje osobjava (poetry, 1999); Yves (poetry, 2001); Nobody Speaks Croatian (with Branko Cegec and Miroslav Micanovic; poetry selection, bilingual Croatian/French edition; 2002); Take Everything That Calms You Down (poetry, 2006); It's Good, It's Beautiful (novel, 2006); Cruelty (poems, 2010); At Yves's (stories, 2011); Brdo (novel, 2014); Silent Demolition (novel, 2017). Awards: Award of the 25th Youth Literature Salon 1998, Zagreb (Writing Liberates); Quirin Award for the best book of poems by an author under 35, 2001 (Yves); Kiklop Award for the Poetry Book of the Year 2006 (Take Everything That Calms You Down); Risto Ratkovic for the best poetry book in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and Serbia in 2009 (Cruelty); Kiklop Award for Poetry Book of the Year 2010 (Okrutnost); VBZ and TISAKmedija Award for Best Unpublished Novel 2014 (Brdo).
