Daša Drndić was born in Zagreb in 1946. She passed away in 2018. She studied English language and literature at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade, received her master's degree from Southern Illinois University as a Fulbright scholar, and then studied at Case Western Reserve University . She worked as an editor at the publishing house "Vuk Karadžić", as a professor of English at the National University "Đuro Salaj", and as an editor-drama writer at Radio Television Belgrade. She received her doctorate from the University of Rijeka, where she taught modern British literature and creative writing at the Department of English. She publishes prose, literary criticism, analytical works and translations in magazines and literary journals, as well as feature and documentary radio dramas.

Published prose works so far: The Road to Saturday , 1982; Stone from Heaven , 1984; Maria Częstohowska Still Sheds Tears or Dying in Toronto , 1997; Canzone di guerra , 1998; Totenwnade , 2000; Doppelgänger , 2002; Leica format , 2003; After Eight , 2005; Feminist Manuscript or Political Parable , 2006; Sonnenschein , 2007; April in Berlin , 2009; Belladonna, 2012. and EEG , 2016.