Dino Pešut is a novelist and playwright. He is the winner of six Marin Držić Awards—given by the Croatian Ministry of Culture—for the following plays: L.O.S.E.R.S. (2014); (Pen)Ultimate Panda or Static (2015); Grand Hotel Abyss (2016); Stella, the flood (2017); Olympia Stadium (2018); and Bombing Raid (2019). (Pen)Ultimate Panda was also awarded the Deutschen Jugentheaterpreis in 2018. In 2019, he was a resident fellow at The Royal Court Theater in London. Daddy’s Boy (Tatin sin, Fraktura, 2020), his second novel, has been translated into German, Slovene, and Italian (forthcoming).

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TRANSLATION

Daddy's Boy
(an excerpt)

By DINO PEŠUT

Translated from Croatian by Vladislav Beronja