Goran Gocic (b. 1962) has a B. A. in English language and literature from the Faculty of Philology, Belgrade and an M. Sc. in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has worked as a freelance journalist, editor, translator and filmmaker for thirty-odd media outlets - Borba, Politika, Dnevni Telegraf, Radio Television Serbia (Serbia), the BBC, Channel 4, Sight and Sound (UK) among others. His essays have won several awards. Goran Gocic has authored chapters in sixteen books, including Degraded Capability: The Media and The Kosovo Crisis (2000) coauthored by Harold Pinter, and Želimir Žilnik: Above the Red Dust (2003), both of which have been published in three languages. His film credits include the documentaries Balkan Diaries: Bulgaria (2010) and the awardwinning Bloody Foreigners (2000). He has published the study Andy Warhol and the Strategy of Pop (1997) and Notes from the Underground: The Cinema of Emir Kusturica (2001), selected among the top five film books of the year by The Observer. So far, his works have been translated into ten languages. In 2014, Goran Gocic’s first novel Thai won the NIN Prize, the most prestigious literary award in Serbia and has become a bestseller.