Bora Ćosić (1932) was a novelist, essayist, and translator. He began his literary career with the novel House of Thieves (1956) and subsequently published essay collections The Visible and the Invisible Man (1962) and Sodom and Gomorrah (1963). He gained prominence with the short story collection Stories About Crafts (1966) and the cult novel My Families Role in the World Revolution (1969). Among his most significant works are, besides the aforementioned, the novels Tutors (1978), Bel Tempo (1982), Doctor Krleža (1988), Interview at Lake Zurich (1988), Musil’s Notebook (1989), Zero Land (2002), Exiles (2005), By Herself (2025); essays The Visible and the Invisible Man (1962), Sodom and Gomorrah (1963), Mixed-media (1970), Jobs, Doubts, Dreams of Miroslav Krleža (1983), Good Governance (1995); and memoir, diary, and travel prose works Diary of an Apatrid (1993), New Tenant (1998), Old Age in Berlin (1998), Journey to Alaska (2006). His books have been translated into fifteen languages. Ćosić received numerous literary awards and honors, including NIN Awards, Sterija Awards, Nolit Awards, the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for European Understanding, the Albatros of the Günter Grass Foundation, among others.