Boris Domagoj Biletić


Boris Domagoj Biletić is a Croatian poet, literary critic, essayist, publicist and translator. Biletić is the vice-president of the Croatian Writers' Association. He was awarded the Order of Danica Hrvatska with the figure of Marko Marulić in 1996 for his contribution to Croatian culture.

Biography

Biletić was born in Pula, Istria. He completed primary school, grammar school and the Pedagogical Academy in his hometown. He graduated from the University of Zagreb and got his master's degree at the Department of Croatian and South Slavic Philology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. His thesis was Regionalism, Identity and Croatian Literature of Istria 1918–1945. Biletić worked briefly as a teacher, later as a freelance artist and finally as a librarian at the Matija Vlačić Ilirik City Library of Rovinj, eventually becoming the library's director.
Biletić started publishing his first articles for the magazine Istarski borac. He has been publishing poetry, studies, essays and translations since the 1970s. Until the 1990s Biletić was a member of the board of the Pula magazine Istra and Istria through the centuries issued by the Čakavian Parliament, of which he was an active member. He is the editor-in-chief of literary magazine Nova Istra and since 2009 a member of Matica hrvatska. Biletić was a member of the Croatian PEN Center from 1993 until 2013, and today is the vice-president of the Croatian Writers' Association.

Awards and recognitions