Davor Slamnig (born 13 March 1956 in Zagreb) is a Croatian writer and musician. Biography Slamnig was born on 13 March 1956 in Zagreb, where he finished his primary education as well as graduated from grammar school. He allegedly never finished his musical education as well as his studies at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zagreb. He attended further education in the US, in Bloomington, Indiana and in Chicago. Writing career Slamnig's writing attempts became more serious in 1977, when he started publishing his short stories in youth periodicals, mainly in Polet. Those stories were re-published in the collection Čudovište (Monster) in 1980. The next three years he continued publishing short stories, gathered into a second collection, "Qwertzu i Opš" in 1983. After that book came out, a long period of literary silence ensued. Slamnig resuscitated as an author in 2002, when he published the novel Topli zrak (Hot Air). That was the first printed "long-playing" effort by the Zagreb author that sparked a great interest among the public, and which was awarded Jutarnji list'''s First Prize. The novel entered the finals of the Bosnian prize Meša Selimović. Slamnig returned to the short story format (or, at least, to collecting them into a book) in 2005 with the title Krumpirova rodbina (Potato's Kin). The collection contained works published from 1986 until 2005. He was presented with awards for two of the short stories from that book, "Teletabisi" ("Teletubbies") and "Kak smo postali Dalmatinci" ("How We All Became Dalmatians"), with the Second Prize of Večernji list in 2004, and with the Prize Ranko Marinković and the Prize of Večernji list in 2006 respectively. In 2011 Slamnig published a short story "Meaning" ("Smisao") in the May/June 2010 International Science Fiction issue of the World Literature Today (WLT) magazine. Musical career At the same time Slamnig pursued a musical career. His first published song was "Debil Blues", written together with Goran "Pipo" Pavelić, the first playable and singable comic, drawn by the then informal leader of the Zagreb comic group Novi Kvadrat, Mirko Ilić. In 1979 Slamnig joined the Slovenian cult band Buldožer as a guitarist. As member of the band he played and sang on their 1980 album Izlog jeftinih slatkiša. It was an important album for the group, that was left without one of the key members and authors, Marko Brecelj who left not long ago. Apart from