Miloš Đurđević was born in 1961 on the island of Rab, Croatia.
He has studied law at the universities in Split and Zagreb, graduated in philosophy and comparative literature from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, and finished postgraduate studies in literature. He has attended several international literary meetings, festivals, seminars and literary colonies in Europe and in the USA
and he was writer-in-residence at Iowa University, USA, attending the International Writing Program 2009.
second week of insomnia, from the fifth toward third hour a rattle in
the walls (plumbing?) follows automobile boxes for a short while (in
waves? does it bounce back, absorb? will it squeak? on which side?)
...
'I'm sure somebody is speaking against me at this moment.'
Josef K.
southern winds upon the town, the sky resembling unwashed windows
looking towards nothing - spit on the tongue, fingers in his ears
...
and the white-gray light of day seeps through again, scattered in
empty capsules it oscillates and ticks; pale rays of the false sun linger
on, as if hanging in the air, not reaching anything bringing nothing,
...
thin, pallid cover wrapped around bare tree branches in this part of
town, over there it seems night is not over, here we are looking at the
...
from early morning silence is everywhere, with the second step we are
knee deep in water, the river without estuary springs out beneath us,
climbs up and is already frozen, it is impossible to touch that icy crust,
...