Robert Perisic is a Croatian award-winning writer, freelance journalist and screenwriter. His books are considered as authentic portrays of society in transformation and its (anti)heroes. Robert Peroisic was born in 1969 in Split, Croatia. He graduated Literature and Croatian language at the University of Zagreb. Since the beginning of the 1990"s he has written poetry, short stories, plays, as well as literary reviews in various distinguished Croatian magazines such as Feral Tribune and Globus. His novel Our Man in Iraq was the bestselling novel of 2008 in Croatia and has been published in numerous European countries and USA. From 1992 to 2000 Perisic was editor-in-chief of the cultural magazines Godine and Godine nove. Since 2011 he is vice-president of Croatian Writers Society.