Vladimir Tasic was born in 1965 in Novi Sad. He obtained his BA in Mathematics in Novi Sad in 1988. He earned his doctoral degree at the University of Manitoba (Canada) in 1992. Since 1995 he has been professor at the University of New Brunswick (Fredericton, Canada). He has published two volumes of short stories, Pseudologia Fantastica and Radost brodlomnika, and two novels: Oproštajni dar (The Farewell Gift) and Kiša i hartija (Rain and Paper). The Farewell Gift was voted book of the year for 2001 by the panel of Radio Belgrade 2. The volume of short stories Radost brodolomnika has been translated into English as Herbarium of Souls (1998). The Farewell Gift has been published in French, Slovakian, Macedonian and German. Rain and Paper rec
