Vasko Popa (1922-91) was born in Grebenac in the Serbian Banat. He was elected to the Serbian Academy in 1972 and the Academie Mallarme in Paris in 1977. He lived in Belgrade where he worked as an editor for the publishers Nolit. Anne Pennington (1934-81) taught at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where she was Professor of Comparative Slavonic Philology. With Andrew Harvey she adapted Popa's anthology 'The Golden Apple' (1980; reissued 2010). Francis R. Jones is a senior lecturer at Newcastle University, where he teaches translation studies. He has twice been awarded the European Poetry Translation Prize for his translations of Ivan V. Lalic.