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Tatjana Gromača (1971) is a poet and fiction writer and one of the greatest talents that has emerged in Croatian poetry in the last ten years. The publication of her first collection of poems, Nešto nije u redu? (Something Wrong, Maybe?), started an avalanche of observations from literary critics and reviewers discussing new poetics, ‘reality’ in poetry and similar scholarly topics related to her work. The real novelty of her poetry lies not so much in its social dimension, present in her descriptions and lyrical dramaturgy in a convincing and plastic manner, as in the fact that the subject of her poems is a young girl, and identification with her is very easy. Her poetry collection is translated to German and Slovenian language. She is also an author of the novel Crnac which is translated to Polish language. 

Dorta Jagić (1974) is a poet and also writes short stories. She made her poetic debut in 1999 with the award-winning book, Plahta preko glave (Head Under the Sheets), which received the Goran Award For Young Poets, a distinguished national poetry award given annually for a first book of poetry. Critics highly praised Jagić’s book for its innovations in style and its fresh and daring approach to modernistic poetics. She has also published collections of poetry Tamagochi mi je umro na rukama (Tamagochi Died In My Arms), from 2002, and Đavo i usidjelica – ispovijedi (Devil and the Spinster – Confessions), 2003. This year Jagić was awarded with The Balkan Grand Prize for Poetry which was given to her at the International Festival 'Curtea De Argeş Poetry Nights' in Bucharest. 

Ana Brnardić (1980) is a poet. Her first book, Pisaljka nekog mudraca (The Pen of a Wiseman), published in 1998, was exceptionally well accepted by poetry experts. The book was awarded the most prestigious Croatian Goran Award For Young Poets and also The Slavic Award For The Literary Debut of the Croatian Writers' Association. Her second book, Valcer zmija (The Snake Waltz, 2005), which is dominated by prose poems, was awarded Kvirin Poetry Award as the best poetry collection by authors under 35 years of age. The poetess tries to de-automatise inveterate thinking forms and to «rhyme», with Rimbaudian audacity, sounds and colours, rare real references and strong metaphorical collisions, which are creating a completely autonomous poetic world.