Nikola ‘Kolja’ Mićević

Translator, poet, essayist and publicist. He worked as a lecturer of Serbo-Croatian language at Sorbonne University and served as a cultural advisor to the BiH Ambassador to France. He translated Dante's Divine Comedy into French and Serbian, the complete poetic opus of Edgar Allan Poe, almost all classics and other relevant French poets, several medieval novels in verse, sonnets by Franz Prechern, some works by Federico Garcia Lorca and many others translations. In addition to his translation work, he has written poetry in Serbian and French, essays, musicological works, articles, essays on translation and journalistic works. He was described by contemporaries as a ‘Renaissance man’. He was given the Gold Medal of the French Academy and was declared an honorary citizen of Banja Luka.