Nenad Šaponja (1964) is born and lives in Novi Sad, Serbia. He is a poet, essayist, and literary critic whose verses are recognizable in contemporary Serbian poetry due to their stylistic perfection, hermetic quality and metaphysical insight. His poetry has been translated into English, French, Italian, Romanian, Macedonian, Slovak, Albanian, Azerbaijan, Chinese etc. The most popular of his books are Does the Touch of Your Soul Exist?; Sweet Death; and I Seem, Therefore I Am Not. He is also the owner and editor-in-chief of AGORA Publishing House (founded in 2002), through which he edited and published more than 400 titles. Several of them, published by AGORA, received some of the most prestigious literary prizes in Serbia.

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