Miroslav Kirin was born in 1965 in Sisak, Croatia, and lives in Zagreb. He is the author of five volumes of poetry: Od nje do vječnosti [From Her to Eternity], 1989, which won the Goran Prize for poetry; Tantalon [Tantalon], 1998; Zukva [Zukva], 2004; Poslije renesanse [After the Renaissance], 2004; and Jalozi [Jalozi], 2006, and the novel Album, for which he was awarded the Jutarnji List Prize for the best fiction in Croatia in 2001. His poetry and fiction have been translated into English, German, Hungarian, Romanian, and Russian.