Oto Horvat

Oto Horvat was born in 1967 in Novi Sad, Serbia (Yugoslavia at the time). He studied in Novi Sad, Erlangen and Berlin. He writes poetry and translates from Hungarian, German and Italian. He lives and works in Florence, Italy.

Works

• Where the Forest Disappears (KZNS, Novi Sad, 1987, Branko Award)
• Coagulation (Matica Serbian, Novi Sad, 1990)
• Bitter Leaves (Brotherhood and unity, Novi Sad, 1990)
• Photographs (Prometheus, Novi Sad, 1996)
• Canada. Gedichte (Verlag Bernhard Martin, Fuhrt (Bay), 1999)
• Residence Permit (National Book, Belgrade, 2002)
• Travelling to Olmo (National Library of Stefan the First Crowned, Kraljevo, 2008)

His poems are represented in the anthologies Die Neuen Mieter.^[1]

Translations

• John Pilinski, Crater, Selected Poems (JMMT Forum, Novi Sad, 1992)
• Hans Magnus Enzensberger (Agora, in preparation)

References

1. Fremde Blick auf ein vertrautes Land, Ed. I. Mickiewicz (Berlin, Aufbau Taschenbuch Verlag, 2004) and drawing dripping. Vojvodina's new yearbook poetry (Ed. S. Radonjic, (That is, Novi Sad, 1988).