ZVONKO KOVAČ (born 1951) is a professor of South Slavic literature at the Department for South Slavic languages and literatures within the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. He completed his secondary education in Čakovec and received his bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees at the University in Zagreb. He currently heads the Department of comparative history of South Slavic languages and literatures and is lecturer in contemporary Slovene and Bosnian literature.
His poems have been published since his student days, with five books being published: Courbette (A.B.Šimić Award, 1973), Korelacije (1982), Slutim sretnu ruku (1988), Vrnul se buom (2001), Goettingenske elegije (2001).
As a holder of the A. v. Humboldt Foundation scholarship, he attended Göttingen University where he taught the Croatian language and lectured in South Slavic literatures. In his research he focused on the problems in the essay genre and literary criticism as well as the interpretation of literature and methodological questions of comparative and intercultural history of Slavic literature. Research published in: Interpretacijski kontekst (1987), KRITIKA KNJIGOSLOVLJA i druge kritike (1987), Poetika Miloša Crnjanskog (1988), Poredbena i /ili interkulturna povijest književnosti (2001), Raznoliko pjesništvo (2003), Međuknjiževna tumačenja (2005).