Irena Skrt is a Croatian literary translator born in 1957 in Zagreb, Croatia. She graduated from Zagreb University in 1992 with degrees in Italian Language and Literature and Comparative Literature. Since 2005 she has been a member of the Croatian Literary Translators Association. She fluently speaks Italian, English, Slovenian and has basic knowledge of French and German. Some of her literary translations include works from Italian and Slovenian authors such as Dacia Maraini and Jani Virk into Croatian. She has worked as a freelance translator since 2004.