Sonia Bićanić

Sonia Wild Bićanić OBE (née Wild, 3 January 1920 – 1 December 2017) was an English academic, author and translator whose numerous publications cover topics in the literature, history and culture of both Great Britain and Croatia.

Early life and education Bićanić was born in Kenley, Surrey, United Kingdom. She was the daughter of Job Longson Wild, owner of a successful civil engineering company, and his second wife, Hilda Edwards. She attended Roedean School, Brighton, from 1931 to 1938 and then spent a year at Monticello College, Alton, Il., USA. She returned to the UK in 1939 a few weeks before the start of World War II to take up a secretarial post in her father's company.

Army and academic careers In 1941 she joined the ATS as a volunteer, despite being in a reserved occupation. She worked in the military educational service, eventually becoming ATS Senior Commander (Major) and Education Officer for Eastern and South Eastern Commands. British Travelers In Dalmatia 1757-1935. Plus a little more about Dalmatia today, Fraktura, Zagreb, Croatia, 2006. . The Holocaust in Croatia, I. Goldstein and S. Goldstein, translated by S. Bićanić and N. Jovanović, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2016. .

Awards 2001: OBE for services to UK-Croatian cultural relations.