Novica Tadic

Novica Tadic was born in 1949 and has lived most of his life in Belgrade. The author of fourteen previous collections of poetry, he is the most-respected living Serbian poet, and the linguistic “heir” to the great Serbian poet Vasko Popa, who is now deceased. The author of many celebrated collections, including, The Object of Ridicule, Monster, The Unknown, and Dark Things, Tadic has won almost every major Serbian literary award for his writing, including the prestigious Laureat Nagrade. In the last two decades, he has served as editor of several Serbian literary magazines, both weekly and monthly publications. Tadic's books of poems have been translated into more than two dozen languages. Prior to the publication of Dark Things (BOA, 2009) only one full-length collection of his poetry had previously appeared in English: Night Mail: Selected Poems (Oberlin College Press, 1992), alsotranslated by Charles Simic. Novica Tadic also appeared in the only anthology on Serbian poetry published in English: The Horse Has Six Legs: An Anthology of Serbian Poetry, edited by Charles Simic, and published by Graywolf Press in 1992.

About the Translator

Poet, prose writer, editor, translator, anthologist, Charles Simic served as Poet Laureate of the United States in 2007-2008. The recipient of many awards for his poetry and translation books, he received the $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award from The Academy of American Poets for “Mastery in the Art of Poetry”. Charles Simic's Walking the Black Cat (1996) was a finalist for the National Book Award, his Selected Poems: 1963-2003 won the Griffin Poetry Prize (Canada's highest literary honor), and The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems (1990) captured the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

BOA books by Novica Tadic:

Dark Things