Scott Abbott is the author of Fictions of Freemasonry: Freemasonry and the German Novel. He was the jazz critic for the Salt Lake Observer and co-author, with Sam Rushforth, of the series "Wild Rides, Wild Flowers: Biking and Botanizing the Great Western Trail" which appeared for four years in Catalyst Magazine. He has translated Peter Handke's A Journey to the Rivers: Justice for Serbia (Viking) and Handke's play Voyage by Dugout: the Play of the Film of the War (Performing Arts Journal). A translation of Handke's "To Duration, A Poem" is forthcoming with Cannon, Amsterdam. Abbott has published reviews of books and art in The Bloomsbury Review, Open Letters Monthly, and Catalyst Magazine. He is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Utah Valley University and has published literary-critical articles on Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, Thomas Mann, Rilke, Grass, and Handke. He lives in Woodland Hills, Utah.
Zarko Radakovic is the author of several books published in Belgrade, including Tubingen, Knifer, Emigracija (Emigration), Pogled (The View), Strah od Emigracije (Fear of Emigration), Era, and Knjiga o muzici (A Book about Music, with David Albahari). He has translated more than twenty of Austrian author Peter Handke's books into Serbian and has been traveling companion and translator for Handke during repeated trips to Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro, and Kosovo. His recent work with Serbian/German artist Nina Pops includes collaboration on a series of collages that feature manuscript translations of Peter Handke's novel Bildverlust (The Loss of Images, or Crossing the Sierra de Gredos) and Pops' "translations" of the text into images. Radakovic edited an edition of the German literary magazine Nachtcafe on the theme of Walking, and more recently, with Peter Handke, an edition of the German literary magazine Schreibheft on "Literature from Serbia." He has published essays on art, music, and literature. David Albahari described Radakovic as "one of the few absolutely isolated, independent, creative personalities of contemporary Serbian prose. . . . He deals with our language like a foreign language in the same way Beckett uses the English language and Handke the German language. . . . I think I will not be wrong when I say that Zarko . . . is the most radical Serbian writer of the present time." He lives in Cologne, Germany.
