Mate Maras

He tried many careers, from geophysics to teaching to being a cultural attaché in Croatian embassies in Paris and Washington, DC.

The authors he translated include Dante, Petrarch, Milton, Scott, Kipling, Proust and Frost.

[3] In 2019, he was awarded the Order of Danica Hrvatska with the Effigy of Marko Marulić by the President of Croatia for outstanding work in translation and versatile contribution to the development of Croatian culture and its international reputation.

A recurrent problem in the history of Shakespeare's translations in Croatia was the Croatian equivalent for the original blank verse.

[7] He wrote Grgur Ninski, a film script/history play about the medieval Croatian bishop Gregory of Nin, which was published in 2013.

[8] In 2013, he wrote a novel about his emigrant father, Pisma od smrti (Letters From Death), "a monument to a life sacrificed in vain for vague ideals.