Radoslav Petković was born in Belgrade in 1953. He has published novels, short stories, essays and translations from English. His major works include the novels Put u Dvigrad (1979, The Road to Dvigrad), Senke na zidu (1985, Shadows on the Wall), and Sudbina i komentari (1993, Destiny, Annotated); the short-story collections Izveštaj o kugi (1989, An Account of the Plague), Čovek koji je živeo u snovima (1998, The Man who Lived in Dreams), and Savršeno sećanje na smrt (2008, The Perfect Remembrance of Death); as well as the essay collections Ogled o mački (1995, Consider the Cat), O Mikelanđelu govoreći (2006, Speaking of Michelangelo) and Vizantijski internet (2007, Byzantium Online). Petković has won several of Serbia's top literary awards, including the NIN, the Meša Selimović, the Miloš Crnjanski, and the Ivo Andrić Prize. Besides English, his work has been translated into French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Russian, and Slovak.