Hrvoje Šalković

Hrvoje Šalković was born on 29 September 1973, at the Petrova Hospital in Zagreb.

He was conceived nine months before, on Christmas Eve 1972. The story tells that as Mrs. Mom was decorating the Christmas tree, she dropped one ornament. She bent over to pick it up...

Šalković has received a degree in Journalism from the College of Political Science at the University of Zagreb, after which he left for London for a few weeks, hoping to improve his English.
He stayed for three years.

He enrolled into a postgraduate course at the University of Westminster, where he published a number of papers, receiving his Master's Degree in 2000.

Šalković then returned to Zagreb, dedicating himself to writing and travelling.

During his studies, both in Zagreb and L

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