Darko Hudelist (Zagreb, February 27, 1959) is a Croatian journalist, non-fiction writer and researcher of contemporary history. Biography Hudelist was born in Zagreb and completed his elementary and secondary education (gymnasium) in Đurđevac. In 1982, he graduated from the Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb with a bachelor's degree in political science. He began his career in journalism in 1979 working as a rock critic for the youth weekly publication Polet. From 1982 until 1991, Hudelist was as a regular contributor and member of the editorial staff for the magazine Start. In the late 1980s, he systemically monitored and analyzed events preceding the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, after which he published his first book Kosovo – bitka bez iluzija (Kosovo – A Battle without Illusions, 1989). His legendary investigative report Split vražji otok (lit. Devil Island Split) was published during the same period (Start, March 1988). In 1989, he collaborated with the French magazine Les Temps Modernes which published his analytical articles on the conflicts between Albanians and Macedonians in the Socialist Republic of Macedonia; these articles were originally published in Start in the spring of 1988. Hudelist marked the period during which the first political parties in the Socialist Republic of Croatia were created with his book Banket u Hrvatskoj: Prilozi povijesti hrvatskog višestranačja 1989.-1990. (Banquet in Croatia: Historical Contributions to Croatia's Multipartyism during 1989–1990), which was published in the early summer of 1991. The book proved to be very successful (and it was preceded by a six-part series published in the Nedjeljna Dalmacija weekly newspaper). A slightly revised edition of the book was published in 1999. In 1992, Hudelist published a book about war journalism in Croatia titled Novinari pod šljemom (Journalists under Helmets). In 1994, he served as an advisor for Croatia's BBC team which was working on the world-famous documentary The Death of Yugoslavia. From 1993 until the late 1990s, he was also a regular contributor for Erasmus, a magazine which promoted liberal democracy. In 1995, Hudelist began writing for the leading Croatian weekly news magazine Globus, for which he still writes today. He authored and published many articles for Globus as well as having published extensive analytical interviews with prominent Croatian politicians and full-length series about the most significant political and historically-political topics like Ratni memoari generala Martina Špegelja (War Memoirs of General Martin Špegelj, 1995), Tuđman: biografija (Tuđman: A Biography,