He graduated at the Philosophy Faculty in Zagreb. Started publishing short stories in the early 1970s of the 20th century in the so-called first wave. fantasists (Conspiracy of cartographers and Prague's death), to be gradually opted for genre fiction. Criticism immediately noticed Tribuson najtipičnijeg as representatives of the Croatian borgesovaca that the first among numerous in the stream reaches the full maturity of authoring. Gradually abandoned fiction, but retains an interest in Central European iconography and the occult aspiration, which is reflected in his novels Snow in Heidelberg, Can you hear us, Frida Stern (author's entire oeuvre in one of his best works), and Russian roulette. Further Tribuson numerous novels are divided into autobiographical and marked generational, mostly with the theme of Native Bjelovar and analysis popkulturne mythology of everyday life of the seventies (Slow Surrender, history of pornography). This group includes two books of autobiographical essays Early Days (1977). And grass and weeds. (1999). The second cycle consists of many crime novels Tribuson peep, Gray Zone, Night shift and the second, which is the main hero ex-cop Nicholas Banic. The team's novels, along with those of Paul Pavlicic, accepted and created opus of music critics and the widest readership. He has been editor from Book, Full Professor Screenplay at the Academy of Dramatic Arts. Since 2000. was an associate of the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences Department of Literature, in June 2008. he become a regular member of the Academy.