David Albahari was born in 1948 in Péc, Serbia. He studied English language and literature in Belgrade. In 1994 he moved to Calgary, Canada with his wife and their two children where he still lives today. He mainly writes novels and short stories and is also an established translator from English into Serbian. His prize-winning books have been translated into sixteen languages. Between 1991 and 1994 he was president of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Yugoslavia.