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Nikica (Nikola) Petrak
Is a poet, essayist and translator. Born in 1939, in Duga Resa, Croatia. Graduated from the University of Zagreb (English Department and History of Art). He completed a postgraduate year at Vienna University, as a Herder Scholar. He began as a journalist, doing cultural programs and documentaries on Zagreb TV and later joined Zagreb University Press as an editor. He also worked for a short while in the International Relations Section of the Croatian Ministry of Culture. Up to today, hw has been working as an editor at the Lexicographic Institute «Miroslav Krleža» in Zagreb, working on the «Encyclopaedia Croatica». Collections of poetry: All of These Things (1963); Talking to the Ghosts (1968); A Dry Letter (1971); A Silent Book (1980); Declarations of Intentions (1989); Selected Poems (1991); Falling Out of History (1966); Removing the Cobwebs (1999); Of Love (selection, 2004) and Arca (forthcoming). Collected essays: Unuttered Speech (2003). Prolific as a translator, he translated into Croatian poems, essays and books by Dylan Thomas, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Blake, John Donne, W.H. Auden, G.M. Hopkins, Robert Graves, W.B. Yeats, E.A. Poe, Ben Jonson, Leo Strauss, Hannah Arendt, Lewis Mumford, Edmund Burke, David Held, Carl E. Schorske, Egon Fridell, Peter Blake, Jacques Barzun, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Edward Bond, Christopher Hampton, etc.

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