Igor Štiks


Igor Štiks is a Bosnian writer and scholar. His award-winning novels The Judgment of Richard Richter and A Castle in Romagna have been translated into more than 15 languages.

Biography

Igor Štiks was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1977 and has lived in Zagreb, Paris, Chicago, Edinburgh, and Belgrade.
Igor Štiks is married to Dr. Jelena Vasiljevic, who is a Research Associate at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at University of Belgrade.
They live in Belgrade and have a son.
His first novel, A Castle in Romagna, won the Slavić prize for best first novel in Croatia and was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for 2006. Originally published as Dvorac u Romagni in Croatia; the first English translation ; translated into German, Spanish, Turkish, Macedonian and Arabic.
His second novel The Judgment of Richard Richter, originally published as Elijah's Chair, won the Gjalski and Kiklop Awards for the best novel in Croatia in 2006 and has been translated into fifteen languages German, Spanish, French, Dutch, Italian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Slovenian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Finnish, Ukrainian, Arabic.
In 2017 he published his third novel originally titled Rezalište. In addition to winning the Grand Prix of the 2011 Belgrade International Theatre Festival for his stage adaptation of Elijah's Chair, Štiks wrote two more plays, Flour in the Veins and Zrenjanin. All three plays were put on stage by one of the leading post-Yugoslav theatre directors Boris Liješević.
He earned his PhD at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris and Northwestern University and later worked and taught at the University of Edinburgh and the Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrade.
Besides many scholarly articles and edited volumes, Štiks published a monograph, Nations and Citizens in Yugoslavia and the Post-Yugoslav States: One Hundred Years of Citizenship.
Štiks was honored with the prestigious French distinction Chevalier des arts et des lettres for his literary and intellectual achievements.
In 2017, Štiks has signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.

Novels