Author(s): Danilo Kis
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For once there had been false idols and asses' heads drawn on the walls . . . '
After countless years insensible in a remote cave, the sleepers awake . . .
Danilo Kis was born in the then Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1935. After an unsettled childhood during the Second World War, in which several of his family members were killed, Kis studied literature at the University of Belgrade where he lived for most of his adult life. He wrote novels, short stories and poetry and went on to receive the prestigious NIN Award for his novel Pescanik. He died in Paris in 1989.
