Igor Štiks is professor at the Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrade and research fellow at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. He is the author of Nations and Citizens in Yugoslavia and the Post-Yugoslav States: One Hundred Years of Citizenship (Bloomsbury, 2015) and co-editor of Welcome to the Desert of Post-Socialism (with Srećko Horvat, Verso, 2015). His novels A Castle in Romagna and The Judgment of Richard Richter won numerous awards and have been translated into 15 languages.