Miljenko Smoje, journalist and writer, was born in Split on February 14, 1923. After completing the higher education school, he worked as a teacher in Komiža and Omiš, and in 1948 he was employed as a journalist in Slobodna Dalmacija, where he wrote reports, travelogues and satires about people who met those comments about current events in society. He also worked on Radio Split and was a contributor to a wide range of newspapers from Zagreb's Vjesnik to Wednesday and Vjesnik to the Sarajevo weekly As.

He started satirical papers Pomet and Berekin. During the 1970s and 1980s, he wrote screenplays for the film i television, and the series Our Little Town and Velo brought him the greatest popularity. misto, chronicles of Dalmatian life in the interwar and postwar period. Both of these He also published his screenplays as novels (Chronicle of Our Little Mist, 1971; Velo misto, 1981). For decades, he also wrote a humorous feuilletonist chronicle in which deals with the Split and island mentality and way of life. Those texts were collected in Dalmatian Letters (1976), Miljenka Smoje's Book (1981) and in Diary of a pensioner (1981). During the 1990s, he regularly published it texts in the Feral Tribune, part of which was published as a separate book (Pasje novelettes, 1996).

He died in Split in 1995.