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Place of Birth: Zagreb, Zagreb County, Croatia
About Darko Suvin
- Darko Ronald Suvin (born Darko Šlesinger) is a Yugoslav born academic, writer and critic who became a Professor at McGill University in Montreal — now emeritus.
- He was born in Zagreb, in which at the time was Kingdom of Yugoslavia, now the capital of Croatia.
- After teaching at the Department for Comparative Literature at the Zagreb University, and writing his first books and poems in his native language (that is, in the standardized Croatian variety of Serbo-Croatian language), he left Yugoslavia in 1967. He is best known for several major works of criticism and literary history devoted to science fiction.
- He was editor of Science-Fiction Studies (later respelled as Science Fiction Studies) from 1973 to 1980.
- After his retirement from McGill in 1999, he has lived in Lucca, Italy.
- He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences). In 2009, he received Croatian SFera Award for lifetime achievement in science fiction.
- Also, he is member of Croatian Writers Society (HDP). Recently, Suvin published the series of memoirs on his youth as member of the Young Communist League of Yugoslavia during the Nazi occupation of Croatia and Yugoslavia, and first years of Josip Broz Tito's Yugoslavia, in the Croatian cultural journal Gordogan.
- His 2016 book Splendour, Misery, and Potentialities: An X-ray of Socialist Yugoslavia (published in translation as Samo jednom se ljubi: radiografija SFR Jugoslavije in Belgrade in 2014, in two printing), an attempt at dialectical history of socialist Yugoslavia, is now widely quoted in most recent books and articles in the emerging field of "post-Yugoslav studies".
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