Pavle Goranović, born in 1973 in Nikšić, Montenegro, graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy. He writes poetry, prose and essays. He has published three books: Ornaments of the Night (1994), Reading the silence (1997), Book of apparitions (2002), and What Books Smell Like (2009). His poetry has been translated into several languages. Secretary of the Independent Association of Montenegrin writers. He is also co-editor of the renowned journal for literature, culture and social questions, ARS. He devotes much of his time to literary criticsm and the problems of contemporary aesthetic theories (his study Author – Text – Reader). He edited the literary program of the international festival »Barski ljetopis« and was the art director for the »Ratković evenings of poetry«.