darko ronald suvin (born darko šlesinger) is a yugoslav born academic, writer and critic who became a professor at mcgill university in montreal — now emeritus. he was born in zagreb, in which at the time was kingdom of yugoslavia, now the capital of croatia. after teaching at the department for comparative literature at the zagreb university, and writing his first books and poems in his native language (that is, in the standardized croatian variety of serbo-croatian language), he left yugoslavia in 1967.