Description
Hard to categorize, impossible to forget, Dinko Telećan’s The Book of Visits engages with the world apace with the comings and goings of nature, those we love, and those we will never know. In the smallest of details—from the blooming of flowers to the angles of buildings and fleeting glances between two people—Telećan’s work illuminates the universal elements of existence in fresh and unforgettable ways.
Along with the talent necessary to write such nuanced and powerful pieces, the author is also translating his work, which is remarkable in its own right; he joins such luminaries as Jhumpa Lahiri and Samuel Beckett.
About the Author
Dinko Telećan was born in 1974 in Zagreb, Croatia. In 1999, graduated with a degree in Philosophy and English language and literature from the University of Zagreb. Since then, he has been writing poetry, prose, and essays, as well as translating from English, Spanish, Chinese, and Slovenian. He has published six books of poems (Clashes, 1997; Gardens & Red Phase, 2003; Beyond, 2005; Needlestack, 2011; Until Your Eyes Burn Off, 2017; Sufficient Reasons and Other Poems, 2021; and The Book of Visits, 2023), a metaphysical study titled Freedom and Time (2003), the travelogues Lotus, Dust and Poppy (2008) and Asian Suite (2015), a book of essays called The Desert (2009) and a novel Deserter (2013). Selections from his works have been translated into Albanian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, English, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Romanian, Slovakian, Slovenian, and Spanish. The Book of Visits will be the first of his books to be translated into English.
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