Roman Simić
Roman Simić Bodrožić was born in 1972 in Zadar, Croatia. He holds a degree in Spanish Language and Literature and Comparative Literature from the University of Zagreb. He is the Artistic Director for the Festival of the European Short Story and the editor of the series entitled Anthologies of European Short Story. As a prose writer he won the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin stipend in 2004, and the CCN Graz stipend in 2003. He participated at the presentation of contemporary Croatian prose writers in Vienna in 2001 and 2003 and in Gothenborg in 2004. He also took part at the Biennale of Young Artists of Europe and Mediterranean in Rome in 1999 and at the Days of André Malraux, an international literary meeting in Sarajevo in 2000. Simić's short stories were included into various selections and anthologies of contemporary Croatian prose and translated into German, French, Swedish, Slovenian, Polish, Czech, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Catalan, Slovak and English.
“Čovjek je čovjeku vuk pa mu je zato pas postao najbolji prijatelj. Ne zato jer je priroda htjela da prijateljuju vuk i pas, nego zato jer nije uspjela srediti da to čine ljudi.”
“... ima nešto u tome kada u vlastitoj izgubljenosti vidiš kako je svijet mali, ali to još uvijek ne odgovara na pitanje kolik si ti.”
“...sjećanje kao čuvar od zaborava, ili zaborav kao čuvar od sjećanja?”