Zvonko Maković (1947) graduated in History of Art and Comparative Literature from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, where he now holds the post of Head of the Modern Art and Visual Communications Department. His first book of poems, published in 1968, won him an award from the A.B. Šimić Fund. In total he has published nine books of poetry.

In 2001 he won the coveted Goranov vijenac [Goran's Wreath], a national award, for his overall poetic opus.

Zvonko Maković has also published five books of essays, as well as few books of columns and feuilletons and a dozen of monographs devoted to contemporary artists.

Zvonko Maković has organised numerous exhibitions of contemporary art, and in 2001 he was the national commissioner for the Venice Biennale.

His poems have been translated into the following languages: English, German, French, Dutch, Italian, Polish and Slovene.