After a short and severe illness, British and Croatian journalist and political writer Krsto Cviić passed away in London on Saturday at the age of 81, as confirmed by his family.
Born on October 3, 1930, in Adžamovci near Slavonski Brod, he grew up and was educated in Zagreb, where he graduated in German studies. He has lived in London since 1954. For the first five years, he worked as a journalist and editor at the BBC World Service and during that time graduated in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
After three years of study at Oxford, he returned to the BBC as Deputy Director of the European Service in English. The majority of his career, from 1969 to 1990, was spent at The Economist magazine as an editorial writer and correspondent for Central and Eastern Europe. For more than ten years, he was a research associate at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) and also served as the editor-in-chief of their prestigious monthly publication The World Today.
From 1999 to 2007, he was engaged as a political advisor to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). Since 1990, he has contributed to various media in Croatia, and in 1997 he was the editor-in-chief of the short-lived Tjednik. He authored the book Remaking the Balkans, which was published in two editions in 1991 and 1995. His book of political essays, Pogled izvana, was published in Croatian (Znanje, 1994). Together with Peter Sanfey, he wrote the work Southeast Europe from Conflict to Cooperation (EPH LIBER, 2008). (www.hrt.hr)
