Milorad Stojević was born in Bribir, a small town not far from Rijeka (formerly Fiume), Croatia’s largest port. He graduated from the Philosophical faculty in Zagreb where he earned his PhD in Croatian literature. After completing his studies, he returned to Rijeka, and now commutes between his home town Bribir, where he lives with his family, and Rijeka where he teaches at the Philosophy faculty.
Stojević's books, twenty of which have so far been published, display an impressive range of interests, covering every genre and branch of literature. Although his most important contribution to contemporary Croatian literature has been in the field of poetry, he has also published several novels and a number of scholarly studies, has written storylines for strip-cartoons and commercials, and has exhibited his illustrations in an exhibition entitled Fiumanski notturn (A Fiume Nocturne).
Milorad Stojević has worked as a journalist and a lecturer, edited magazines and anthologies, and is currently resident professor of Croatian Literature in Rijeka. He has been visiting professor at the universities of Kiev, Lavov and Simferpolje in the Ukraine. In 1971 he was awarded the Literary Foundation’s A. B. Šimić Award; in 1979 the 7 Secretaries of the SKOJ Award; in 1983 the Drago Gervais Foundation Prize; in 1987 the Rijeka City Award; in 2004 the Goranov vijenac Poetry Award, and last year in 2005, the Quirinus Poetry Prize.
Essay
Milorad Stojević: A Postmodernist Approach
By Miloš Đurđević
Selected bibliography
Poetry
Litvanski erotski srp, Razlog, Zagreb 1974
Viseći vrtovi, ICR, Rijeka 1979
Rime amorose, ICR, Rijeka 1984
Firentinski poljubac, Quorum, Zagreb 1990
Perivoj od slova, Hrvatska sveučilišna naklada, Zagreb 1996
Došljak iz knjige, RINAZ, Rijeka 1997
Korzo, Libellus, Rijeka 1999
Moj kućni mandarin, Ceres, Zagreb 2000
Ponterosso, izabrane pjesme 1971 - 1999, Libellus, Rijeka 2000
Prostrijelne rane & other poems, Naklada MD, Zagreb 2001.
Tečaj čarolija, Graf-trade, Zagreb 2001
Klonda, DHK, Zagreb 2003
Novelline o soldatu i sto ruž, Riječki književni krug, Rijeka 2005
Anthologies
Čakavsko pjesništvo XX. stoljeća, antologija i studije, ICR, Rijeka 1987
Ruski bordel muza, antologija ruske erotske, pornografske i psovačke poezije, with Vanja Švaćko, Feral Tribune, Split 2000
Novels
Primeri vežbanja ludila, CDD, Zagreb 1981
Orgija za Madonu, Rad, Beograd 1986
Balade o Josipu, ICR, Rijeka 1997
Tatarski zajutrak, AltaGama, Zagreb 2002
Krucifiks, AltaGama, Zagreb 2004
Krv i poljupci, Altagama, Zagreb 2004