Dražen Katunarić (born 25 December 1954) is a Croatian poet, essayist, novelist and editor.
[1] Katunarić was born in 1954 in Zagreb where he spent his childhood and completed secondary schooling.
He studied philosophy at the University of Human Sciences in Strasbourg.
Since 1980 he has published poems, essays, travelogues, novels, tales, articles in Croatian and foreign reviews and translated into French, English, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Romanian, Macedonian, Albanian, German, and Corsican.
[2] On May 16, 2024, he was elected Full Member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.