BORISLAV PEKIC was born in 1930 in Podgorica, Yugoslavia. Arrested in 1948 for terrorism, armed rebellion, and espionage after the theft of a few typewriters and mimeographs, Pakic spent five years In prison, where he began to write. Constant trouble with the authorities led him to emigrate to London in the early 1970s. His novels include The Houses of Belgrade ... Read more(1994) and The Time of Miracles (1994), both published by Northwestern University Press. He died of cancer in 1992 in London. STEPHEN M. DICKEY is an assistant professor of Slavic linguistics at the University of Virginia. Ho cotranslated Mesa Selimovic's Death and the Dorvish (Northwestern, 1996). BOGDAN RAKIC is a visiting associate professor of Slavic literature at Indiana-University. He cotranslated Mesa Selimovic's Death and the Dorvish (Northwestern, 1996) and edited In a Foreign Harbor (Slavica, 2000). He is currently working on Borislav Pekic's literary biography. Show Less