The Building with a Crown

Vladimir Pistalo is a short story writer and essayist born in Sarajevo. He has five collections of stories published in Yugoslavia. He is presently a graduate student in sociology at the University of New Hampshire, Durham. (updated 1993)

Charles Simic (1938–2023) was a poet, essayist, translator, and editor. Born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, he immigrated to the U.S. in 1954 and began publishing English-language poems in 1959. He received the Pulitzer Prize in poetry, was a MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellow, and served as poet laureate of the United States from 2007 to 2008.