Damir Biličić was born in 1966 and has graduated from the University of Zagreb, majoring in English language and literature. Since 1992, he has been a freelance literary translator, a member of the Croatian Literary Translators’ Society and the Croatian
Freelance Artists’ Association.
Working for most of the major Croatian publishers and media outlets, he has translated over 300 titles, ranging from poetry to non-fiction, as well as a wide selection of fictional works encompassing a variety of topics and genres.
A sample of the authors translated: J. P. Kamov, M. Krleža (Croatian into English); J. Grisham, D. Goleman, D. Guterson, S. Dobyns, N. Hornby, S. Adams, Ch. Frazier, A. McCall Smith, R. Rendell, P. O’Brian, N. Chomsky, A. Fugard, M. Kurlansky, F. Fernández-Armesto, A. Gore, S. Englund, F. McLynn, M. Crichton, N. Ferguson, Ph. Strongman, S. Sebag Montefiore, J. C. Levinson, R. Murakami, C. Dovey, N. Kirino, M. Crick, P. Lunde, G. Adair, G. Ch. Spivak, R. Patel, M. Chown, J. S. Foer, D. Coupland, S. King, R. Cooder, G. Stein, S. Žižek, D. Graeber, H. S. Thompson, H. Sebag Montefiore, H. Fielding, L. Harding, G. Greenwald, JP Delaney, W. Isaacson, P. Iyer, S. Sahota, J. Stiglitz, T. Eagleton, T. Snyder, N. Jordan, S. Linfield, Ch. A. Nielsen, M. O Farrell, B. Hopkins, C. Bohannon, T. Holland…

D. Biličić is married, has two daughters and lives in Duga Resa, Croatia.