Dragoslav Dedović, born in 1963 in Zemun, was a long-time editor at the Deutsche Welle media company, as well as the director of the Heinrich Boll Foundation in Belgrade and an advisor to the international organization, the Civil Peace Service Forum in Cologne. He has published nine poetry collections so far and is the winner of many awards. His literary texts have been translated into several languages ​​– English, German, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish, Arabic and Macedonian. So far, he has translated the titles Dobri dani by Marko Dinić, Uoči svetkovine and Porijeklo by Saša Stanišića for the publishing house Buybook.