Last Night

About Sven Popovi

Sven Popovi was born on September 19 1989 in Zagreb in the part of Yugoslavia now known as Croatia. His short stories were published in the anthology of young Croatian writers (Bez vrata bez kucanja Sandorf 2012) in a collection of short stories Record Stories (Aquarius Records 2011) and various magazines and webzines like Quorum Zarez and Arteist. As a freelance journalistm he has contriubuted to several magazines such as Zarez Aktual and the Austrian leftist magazine Wespennest as well as writing literary and album reviews for various webzines. His collection of short stories Last Night (Meandarmedia) came out in 2015 and received excellent reviews. Several of his stories were included in Best European Fiction 2017 (Dalkey Archive Press). His first novel Uvjerljivo drugi was published in 2018 and his second Mali i Levijatan in 2024. Vinko Zgaga has translated several plays for stage production including Tennessee Williams's Orpheus Descending (2008) Christopher Durang's The Marriage of Bette and Boo (2009) and Simon Stephens's Light Falls (2022). He has a long-standing working relationship with the Croatian Centre of the International Theatre Institute having translated many plays for their Croatian Theatre Showcase event and the texts of several Croatian authors into English including Dino Peuts play Static Mate Matiis trilogy Wax People and Sven Popovi's short-story collection Last Night.