Filip Erceg

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Filip Erceg (born 1979) is a Croatian writer and political activist.

Erceg was born in Slavonski Brod, but lived his childhood in Bjelovar. He studied Politics at the University of Zagreb. As a student, he co-edited Hrvatska Ljevica and is a member of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour Party. He was a member of the editorial board of the philosophical journal 11. teza ("Thesis Eleven") and is on the executive committee of August Cesarec Foundation. Filip Erceg is one of the three main editors of the leading left-wing magazine on the territory of ex-Yugoslavia Novi Plamen.

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Erceg's poetry is influenced by works of Miroslav Krleža. He calls his style Alter-Modernism.

His first book is called Krvav povoj rane (2006) ISBN 953-95475-0-4.

He also published poetry and short stories in several magazines including the leading Croatian literary journal Književna republika (edited by Velimir Visković).