Eidetic imagery and insomnia9/18/2023 More than two hundred essays, reviews and articles, including a monograph Over the Elysian Waters and Fields Zoran Bognar’s Athletic Pilgrimage written by Vladan Panković and Nikica Banić, (Užice 2002) have been published about Bognar’s literary contribution to poetry. The poetry of Zoran Bognar has been translated into Italian, French, English, German, Hungarian, Swedish, Slovenian, Macedonian, Turkish, Armenian, Bulgarian, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian Arabian, and Spanish. Honoring the brilliant literary career of Zoran Bognar in the past thirty years, the Belgrade publishing house Draganić decided to publish The Chosen Works of Zoran Bognar in a seven volume collection during 20. He was also active as a literary critic and editor, as he selected and compiled two poetry anthologies: The New Crucifixion – An Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Poetry at the End of the 20th Century (2001) and The Liquid Crystal – An Anthology of Serbian Micro Essays of the 20th Century (2006). Given the fact that Zoran Bognar has a wide range of interests in various fields of literature, his works also include the books of poetic-phenomenological micro essays: The Photographs of Voices (1997), Eidetic Images (1998) and The Photographs of Voices II (2002). Among his other books of poetry, the most popular were Insomnia, the White Nights (2013) and Serbia, Could I Be Your Son (2019). He started his literary career as a novelist, when he wrote and published two novels: The Night of Empty Hands (1989) and The Awake Shape of a Dream (1993) - even though he achieved his true distinction and prestige as a poet, when he published two trilogies of poetry: Elysian Trilogy (2000) and Albedo, Aura, Alchemy (2009). Zoran Bognar, a well-known Serbian poet, essayist, prose writer, literary critic and editor, was born on January 30th, 1965 in Vukovar, Croatia.
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