Almin Kaplan
Almin Kaplan (1985) bosanskohercegovački je pjesnik i prozaist. Pored knjiga poezije, objavio je četiri knjige proze: Trganje, Meho, Dubravske priče i Kućni ljudi. Dobitnik je nekoliko književnih nagrada među kojima i nagrada "Mak Dizdar", "Ratkovićeve večeri poezije", "Zija Dizdarević" i "Edo Budiša". Živi u Rivinama kod Stoca.
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Dario Džamonja
Dario Džamonja was a bosnian journalist and author of short stories.
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He was a columnist for Slobodna Bosna, Večernje novine, Naši dani, Oslobođenje, Komunist, Valter and Valter ekspres, and editor in the magazine Lica.
Awards:
- "Veselin Masleša" for the best short stories book for 1985.;
- Fund Free Expression Award 1993;
- Writes Club Madison II award for Non-fiction 1994.;
- Madison Poetry award in 1996..
Bibliography:
"Priče iz moje ulice", Oslobođenje, Sarajevo, 1980.
"Zdravstvena knjižica", Svjetlost, Sarajevo, 1985.
"Drugo izdanje", Veselin Masleša, Sarajevo, 1987.
"Priručnik, Svjetlost, Sarajevo, 1988.
"Oni dani", 1989.
"Prljavi veš", autorovo izdanje, Sarajevo, 1991.
"Pisma iz ludnice", Slobodna Bosna, Sarajevo, 2001.
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Namik Kabil
Namik Kabil djetinjstvom i prvom mladošću Trebinjac, rođen je 1968. u Tuzli, a prije rata je umjereno neuspješno studirao medicinu. Kada je u Trebinju započela vojna mobilizacija za napad na Dubrovnik, sklanja se na nekoliko mjeseci u rodnu Tuzlu. Kada je i u Tuzli počeo rat, preko američke humanitarne agencije bježi preko oceana i stiže u Los Angeles. Godina je 1993, i sljedećih devet godina ostaje u Americi. Potom se vraća i nastanjuje u Sarajevu, gdje nikad ranije nije živio. Postaje šire poznat kao scenarist filma “Kod amidže Idriza”, redatelja Pjera Žalice.
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Kabilov dokumentarni film 'Informativni razgovori' dobitnik je nagrade "Srce Sarajeva" na Sarajevo Film Festivalu 2007. godine, a dugometražni igrani film 'Čuvari noći' imao je svjet -
Josip Mlakić
Josip Mlakić suvremeni je bosanskohercegovački pisac. Rođen je 1964. u Bugojnu. Diplomirao je na Strojarskom fakultetu u Sarajevu. Živi u Gornjem Vakufu te se bavi književnošću i pisanjem scenarija. Objavio je romane: Kad magle stanu, 2002., Živi i mrtvi, 2002., Psi i klaunovi, 2006., Tragom zmijske košuljice, 2007., Čuvari mostova, 2007., Ljudi koji su sadili drveće, 2010., Planet Friedman, 2012., Svježe obojeno, 2014., Božji gnjev, 2014., Majstorović i Margarita, 2016., Bezdan, 2016., Crni gavran i bijele vrane, 2018., Skica u ledu, 2018., Evanđelje po Barabi, 2019., O zlatu, ljudima i psima, 2020., Na Vrbasu tekija, 2021., Druga Noina arka, 2022., Izgaranje, 2023., zbirke priča: Puževa kućica, 1997., Odraz u vodi, 2002., Obiteljska sli
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Markus Zusak
Markus Zusak is the author of five books, including the international bestseller, The Book Thief , which spent more than a decade on the New York Times bestseller list, and is translated into more than forty languages – establishing Zusak as one of the most successful authors to come out of Australia.
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To date, Zusak has held the number one position at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, the New York Times bestseller list, as well as in countries across South America, Europe and Asia.
His books, The Underdog, Fighting Ruben Wolfe, When Dogs Cry (also titled Getting the Girl ), The Messenger (or I am the Messenger ) and The Book Thief have been awarded numerous honours ranging from literary prizes to readers choice awards to prizes -
Pedro Lemebel
Hijo de Pedro Mardones, panadero, y Violeta Lemebel, nació "literalmente en la orilla del Zanjón de la Aguada" y "vivió en medio del barro" hasta que, a mediados de los años sesenta, "su familia se mudó a un conjunto de viviendas sociales en avenida Departamental".
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Estudió en un liceo industrial donde se enseñaba forja de metal y mueblería y, después, en la Universidad de Chile, donde se tituló de profesor de Artes Plásticas. Trabajó en dos liceos, de los cuales fue despedido en 1983 "presumiblemente por su apariencia, ya que no hacía mucho esfuerzo por disimular su homosexualidad".
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Fernando Aramburu
Fernando Aramburu Irigoyen nació el 4 de enero de 1959 en San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, España. Es licenciado en filología hispánica por la Universidad de Zaragoza y desde 1985 reside en Alemania. Fue miembro del Grupo CLOC de Arte y Desarte. Considerado ya como uno de los narradores más destacados de su generación, es autor de tres libros de relatos: No ser no duele (1997), Los peces de la amargura (2006) y El vigilante del fiordo (2011), y de cinco novelas: Fuegos con limón (1996), Los ojos vacíos (2000), El trompetista del Utopía (2003), Bami sin sombra (2005) y Viaje con Clara por Alemania (2010), títulos que han sido distinguidos con el Premio Ramón Gómez de la Serna 1997, el Premio Euskadi 2001, el XI Premio Mario Vargas Llosa NH, el Dulc
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Aleksandar Hemon
Aleksandar Hemon is a Bosnian American writer known for his short stories and novels that explore issues of exile, identity, and home through characters drawn from Hemon’s own experience as an immigrant.
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Hemon was raised in Sarajevo, where his father was an engineer and his mother was an accountant. After graduating from the University of Sarajevo with a degree in literature in 1990, he worked as a journalist with the Sarajevan youth press. In 1992 he participated in a journalist exchange program that took him to Chicago. Hemon intended to stay in the United States only briefly, for the duration of the program, but, when war broke out in his home country, he applied for and was granted status as a political refugee in the United States.
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Slavenka Drakulić
Slavenka Drakulić (1949) is a noted Croatian writer and publicist, whose books have been translated into many languages.
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In her fiction Drakulić has touched on a variety of topics, such as dealing with illness and fear of death in Holograms of fear; the destructive power of sexual desire in Marble skin; an unconventional relationship in The taste of a man; cruelty of war and rape victims in S. A Novel About the Balkans (made into a feature film As If I Am Not There, directed by Juanita Wilson); a fictionalized life of Frida Kahlo in Frida's bed. In her novel Optužena (English translation forthcoming), Drakulić writes about the not often addressed topic of child abuse by her own mother. In her novel Dora i Minotaur Drakulic writes about Dora -
Semezdin Mehmedinović
Semezdin Mehmedinović is a well known Bosnian writer, filmmaker, and magazine editor. His book "Sarajevo Blues" was praised by Washington Post as one of the best books which document war in Bosnia.
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Robert Perišić
Robert Perišić (born. 1969) is a prominent Croatian poet, writer and journalist. He took his BA in Croatian language and literature at Philosophical Faculty in Zagreb. His criticism and essays were published in Feral Tribune and Playboy magazines. Perišić lives in Zagreb and works as a freelance writer.
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Ante Tomić
Ante Tomić is Croatian writer and journalist.
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A native of Split, Ante Tomić begin to write as a reporter for local daily newspaper Slobodna Dalmacija. His articles showed great literary talent that would manifest in his 2000 debut novel Što je muškarac bez brkova. Three years later he wrote novel Ništa nas ne smije iznenaditi, describing the life of recruits in Yugoslav People's Army. Both novels are adapted to screen.
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Jurica Pavičić
Jurica Pavičić, pisac, kolumnista, scenarista, filmski kritičar. Diplomirao je komparativnu književnost i povijest na Filozofskom fakultetu u Zagrebu.
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Godine 1992. nagrađen je nacionalnom nagradom za filmsku kritiku „Vladimir Vuković“. Od 1994. piše u različitim novinama nedeljnu kolumnu Vijesti iz Liliputa, u kojoj secira društvo, politiku i kulturu ratne i posleratne Hrvatske. Za tekstove iz te serije 1996. dobija Nagradu nacionalnog novinarskog društva „Marija Jurić Zagorka“, 2002. Nagradu za doprinos novinarstvu „Veselko Tenžera“, a 2007. Nagradu „Miljenko Smoje“ Slobodne Dalmacije. Kolumna danas izlazi u Jutarnjem listu.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)
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Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),
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Lea Ypi
Lea Ypi is professor of political theory at London School of Economics, and adjunct associate professor of philosophy at the Australian National University, with expertise in Marxism and critical theory. A native of Albania, she has degrees in philosophy and in literature from the University of Rome La Sapienza, a Ph.D. from the European University Institute and was a post-doctoral prize research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University. Her latest book, a philosophical memoir entitled “Free: Coming of Age at the End of History,” published by Penguin Press in the UK and W. W. Norton & Company in North America, won the 2022 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize. She lives and works in Lo
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Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. She writes in both Turkish and English, and has published seventeen books, eleven of which are novels. Her work has been translated into fifty languages. Shafak holds a PhD in political science and she has taught at various universities in Turkey, the US and the UK, including St Anne's College, Oxford University, where she is an honorary fellow. She is a member of Weforum Global Agenda Council on Creative Economy and a founding member of ECFR (European Council on Foreign Relations). An advocate for women's rights, LGBT rights and freedom of speech, Shafak is an inspiring public speaker and twice a TED Global speaker, each time receivin
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Lana Bastašić
Lana Bastašić rođena je u Zagrebu, tadašnjoj SFRJ, 1986. godine. Završila je studije anglistike i komunikologije u Banjoj Luci, i odbranila master rad iz Studija kulture na FPN u Beogradu. Objavila je dvije zbirke kratkih priča: Trajni pigmenti (SKC Kragujevac, 2010, konkurs edicije Prvenac) i Vatrometi (Čekić, Beograd, 2011). Samostalno je objavila knjigu priča za djecu, Nastja crta sunce (Banja Luka, 2015, ilustracije Sandre Dukić). Godine 2014. osvojila je prvu nagradu za neobjavljenu zbirku poezije na Danima poezije u Zaječaru i objavila Naivni triptih o Bosni i umiranju. Njen prvi roman, Uhvati zeca (Kontrast, Beograd 2018), dobitnik je Evropske nagrade za književnost 2020. godine. Roman je bio uvršten u najuži izbor za NIN-ovu nagradu
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Marina Vujčić
Marina Vujčić rođena je 1966. u Trogiru. Na Filozofskom fakultetu u Zagrebu diplomirala je kroatistiku.
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U nakladi izdavačke kuće Profil 2010. godine objavljuje roman "Tuđi život", a 2014. u izdanju Hena coma knjigu drama "Umri ženski" i roman "A onda je Božo krenuo ispočetka" koji je 2015. godine ušao u uži izbor od četiri hrvatska naslova nominirana za Europsku nagradu za književnost.
Za dramu "Umri ženski" 2014. godine dobila je nagradu Marin Držić, a za dramu "Podmornica" istu nagradu 2017. godine.
2015. godine u izdanju Hena coma objavljuje roman "Mogla sam to biti ja".
Iste godine na natječaju V. B. Z.-a i Tisak medije romanom „Susjed“ osvaja nagradu za najbolji neobjavljeni roman 2015., koji objavljuje izdavačka kuća V. B. Z.
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Kristian Novak
Kristian Novak is a Croatian writer, linguist and university professor. He was born into a family of Croatian migrant workers in Germany, but spent his childhood and youth in a small village in Međimurje, the most northern part of Croatia.
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He moved to Zagreb, to college in 1997.
He was standard member of the Croatian karate national team from 1996 to 2009, winning a range of individual and team awards at national and global championships.
In 2006. he was European Vice-Champion.
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Fernanda Melchor
Nací en el puerto de Veracruz. Escribí el libro de crónicas Aquí no es Miami y las novelas Falsa liebre, Temporada de huracanes y Páradais.
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Faruk Šehić
Faruk Šehić was born in 1970 in Bihać, in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Until the outbreak of war in 1992, he studied veterinary medicine in Zagreb. However, the then 22-year-old joined the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in which he led a unit of 130 men. After the war he studied literature and has gone on to create his own literary works.
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His second book ‘Hit depot’ (2003) was the absolutely literary bestseller in Bosnia despite that was a poetry book. In this book he made a sketches of a several main topic of his later works such as postwar life on the edge of society. His poems are about local (and global) feeling of capitalistic way of life mixed with desperate postwar life in ruins, remains of dead society in Sarajevo -
Hasan Kikić
Hasan Kikić was a well known Bosnian writer and a fighter for social justice.
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Kikić grew up in a poor family. His talent for literature was discovered early on. Thanks to his uncle he was able to attend the school for teachers in Derventa. He led a student protest and was soon expelled but able to finish in Zagreb. After graduation he joined the army where his literary career began with publication of his works in various literary journals and magazines. After the army he married Anka Jovanović in August 1932. He was worried that his wife would be persecuted for marrying someone of different religion and he permanently moved to Croatia. Because of his political activism he was noticed (negatively) by the government. He joined the Partisans -
Karim Zaimović
Karim Zaimović was born in Sarajevo, May 6, 1971. After completing High School in Sarajevo in 1989, he enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts, but after a few months transferred to the study of comparative literature at the University of Philosophy in Sarajevo. In his youth he was deeply involved with drawing and tireless reading, especially the works of fiction.
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Already in those years with him with great love for comics thanks to which grows into a versatile connoisseurs of domestic and international comic book so that he wrote a number of valuable articles, criticisms, and reviews in this area. Very early he started his career in journalism (as a 14-year-old he has been collaborating with Radio Sarajevo).
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Refik Hodžić
Refik Hodžić je novinar iz Prijedora. Radio je kao glavni i odgovorni urednik nezavisne radio stanice Slobodni radio Prijedor, suosnivač je nezavisnog magazina Novo ogledalo, a iz Bosanske Krajine je izvještavao i za RTV BiH i magazin BH Dani. U septembru 2000. godine počinje da radi pri Međunarodnom krivičnom sudu za bivšu Jugoslaviju, gdje vodi kancelariju za ondose sa javnošću u BiH, a služio je i kao glasnogovornik Tribunala. Bio je član tima koji je radio na uspostavljanju Vijeća za ratne zločine Suda BiH i prvi šef njegove službe za informisanje. Suosnivač je producentske kuće XY Films i koautor nekoliko dokumentarnih filmova i televizijskih serija koje se bave zaostavštinom ratnih zločina u BiH. Danas radi kao direktor komunikacija p
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