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.
