Miljenko Jergović
Miljenko Jergović is a Bosnian prose writer. Jergović currently lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.
Jergović has established himself as a writer in both Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, and his stories and novels have been translated into more than 20 languages. Critics have acclaimed his capability to turn every topic into a story without changing it at all, hence preserving its internal logic.
His more acclaimed works include his debut Opservatorija Varšava (Warsaw Observatory, 1988); Hauzmajstor Šulc (Schultz the Repairman, 2000), both collections of poetry; a collection of short stories Sarajevski marlboro (Sarajevo Marlboro, 1994); the novels Mama Leone and Dvori od oraha ("The Mansion in Walnut," 2003; and the drama Kažeš, anđeo (You
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Tanja Stupar Trifunović rođena je u Zadru 1977. godine. Diplomirala je na Filološkom fakultetu, Odsjek za srpski jezik i književnost u Banjaluci.
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Dosad je objavila knjige poezije Kuća od slova (Zadužbina "Petar Kočić", Banjaluka-Beograd, 1999), Uspostavljanje ravnoteže (KOV, Vršac, 2002), O čemu misle varvari dok doručkuju (Zoro, Sarajevo-Zagreb, 2008) i izbor iz kolumni Adornova svraka (Zalihica, Sarajevo 2007).
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Arnon Grunberg
Arnon Yasha Yves (Arnon) Grunberg is a Dutch writer. Some of his books were written using the heteronym Marek van der Jagt.
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In 1989 Grunberg made his acting debut in Maria's Cunt (de Kut van Maria); a short film by Dutch enfant terrible filmmaker Cyrus Frisch.
Grunberg made his literary debut in 1994 with the novel Blauwe maandagen (Blue Mondays), which won the Dutch prize for the best debut novel that year. In 2000, under the heteronym Marek van der Jagt, he won the best debut prize again for his novel De geschiedenis van mijn kaalheid (The History of My Baldness).
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Stevo Grabovac
Stevo Grabovac je rođen u Slavonskom Brodu, a odrastao je i završio srednju školu u bosanskom Brodu. Studirao je na Tehnološkom fakultetu u Banjaluci. Objavio je zbirku pjesama „Stanica nepostojećih vozova“ 2007. godine. Njegov prvi roman „Mulat albino komarac“ stigao je u najuži izbor za NIN-ovu nagradu za 2019. godinu. Dobitnik je NIN-ove nagrade za svoj drugi roman "Poslije zabave" (2023).
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Ivica Đikić
Ivica Đikić (Tomislavgrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1977), Croatian writer, journalist, columnist and translator.
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Rođen u Hercegovini, živi u Zagrebu. Karijeru je započeo u Slobodnoj Dalmaciji, a zatim je prešao u Feral Tribune. U Feral Tribuneu je bio novinar i urednik, a karijeru je nastavio u riječkom Novom listu gdje je jedno vrijeme bio glavni urednik. Nakon Novog lista, postao je glavni urednik tjednika Novosti, gdje i danas povremeno piše kao politički komentator. -
Đorđe Lebović
Rođen je u Somboru 1928. godine. Kao petnaestogodišnjak, zbog svog jevrejskog porekla, biva interniran u zloglasne nemačke koncentracione logore Aušvic, Mauthauzen i Saksenhauzen. Gorka iskustva stečena u ratu ostaviće kasnije dubok trag u njegovom delu. Nakon rata, 1947. godine započinje studije na Tehničkom fakultetu u Beogradu, odakle 1948. prelazi na Odsek za filozofiju Filološkog fakulteta gde diplomira 1951. godine. Već tokom studija radi kao novinar na Radio Beogradu i u humorističkom listu „Jež“, a nakon studija postavljen je na funkciju kustosa u Muzeju pozorišne umetnosti u Beogradu koju obavlja tokom 1954—1955. godine, ostavljajući pritom najobimniji rukopis, pisan rukom, „Prva inventarska knjiga Muzeja pozorišne umetnosti u Beog
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Alain Mabanckou
Alain Mabanckou was born in 1966 in Congo-Brazzaville (French Congo). He currently resides in Los Angeles, where he teaches literature at UCLA, having previously spent four years at the University of Michigan. Mabanckou will be a Fellow in the Humanities Council at Princeton University in 2007-2008. One of Francophone Africa's most prolific contemporary writers, he is the author of six volumes of poetry and six novels. He received the Sub-Saharan Africa Literary Prize in 1999 for his first novel, Blue-White-Red, the Prize of the Five Francophone Continents for Broken Glass, and the Prix Renaudot in 2006 for Memoirs of a Porcupine. He was selected by the French publishing trade journal Lire as one of the fifty writers to watch out for in the
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Julijana Matanović
Julijana Matanović rođena je 6. aprila 1959. u Gradačcu (BiH). Od 1962. živi u Hrvatskoj. Osnovnu školu završila je u Đurđenovcu, gimnaziju u Našicama, a studije na Odsjeku jugoslavenskih jezika i književnosti na Pedagoškom fakultetu u Osijeku. U jesen 1982. zaposlila se, kao asistent, na Odsjeku za jugoslavenske književnosti istoga Fakulteta. Postdiplomske studije završila je na Filozofskom fakultetu u Zagrebu, gde je 1989. magistrirala na temi Primarna i sekundarna generička obilježja u Đurđevićevim „Uzdasima Mandalijene pokornice“. Doktorirala je 1998. godine s temom Hrvatski povijesni roman XX. stoljeća. Od 1993. zaposlena je na Filozofskom fakultetu Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, kada je i izabrana za asistenta na Katedri za noviju hrvatsku kn
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Darko Tuševljaković
Rođen u Zenici, 1978. godine. Objavio je pet romana (Senka naše želje, 2010; Jaz, 2016; Jegermajster, 2019; Uzvišenost, 2021; Karota, 2025) i tri zbirke priča (Ljudske vibracije, 2013; Naknadne istine, 2018; Hangar za snove, 2022). Dela su mu se našla u užim izborima za relevantne književne nagrade u Srbiji i regionu. Dobitnik je nagrade "Lazar Komarčić", Evropske nagrade za književnost (2017) i Andrićeve nagrade (2023). Roman Jaz je preveden na engleski, italijanski, bugarski, albanski, rumunski, slovenački, španski, grčki i makedonski jezik.
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David Albahari
David Albahari (Serbian Cyrillic: Давид Албахари, pronounced [dǎv̞id albaxǎːriː] was a Serbian writer. Albahari wrote mainly novels and short stories. He was also a highly accomplished translator from English into Serbian.
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Albahari was awarded the prestigious NIN Award for the best novel of 1996 for Mamac (Bait). He was a member of SANU (Serbian Academy Of Sciences And Arts). -
Aleksandar Stanković
Aleksandar Stanković (born in Subotica, Serbia in 1970) is a Croatian radio & TV host and a poet.
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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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Vuk Drašković
Vuk Drašković (1946, Međa kod Žitišta), pisac, političar, osnivač i predsednik Srpskog pokreta obnove. Po završenim studijama prava u Beogradu 1968, radio kao novinar u Tanjugu i dopisnik iz afričkih zemalja. Od 1980. posvetio se književnosti, a od kraja 80-ih godina do danas je i politički angažovan.
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Osnovao je stranku Srpski pokret obnove 1990. godine i bio najsnažniji i najuticajniji predstavnik opozicije i protivnik režima Slobodana Miloševića u poslednjoj deceniji HH veka, zbog čega je više puta, sa suprugom Danicom, bio zatvaran i izlagan policijskoj torturi, a nekoliko puta i meta atentata kriminalizovanih struktura državne bezbednosti.
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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 -
Ivana Bodrožić
Ivana is a Croatian poet and writer.
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She studied philosophy and Croatian Language and Literature in Zagreb.
She was awarded for her poetry book Korak u tamu (Pace into the Darkness) with the Goran-award for young writers, as well as the Kvirin Award in 2005.
Her poems have been published in various newspapers, magazines and anthologies, and some of them have been translated into English, German and Polish.
Her first novel Hotel Zagorje is a coming-of-age-novel. It's a book about the girl's life as a refugee, sharing a few squremetres with her mother and her brother, all of them waiting for a message of the lost father.
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Mihai Radu
Mihai Radu (n. 1977) a absolvit Facultatea de Filosofie din cadrul Universității „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iași. Este jurnalist la săptămânalul Cațavencii și scrie pentru emisiunea Starea Nației. După volumul de proză scurtă Hobby și alte povestiri, apărut în 2009, a publicat, împreună cu Simona Tache, Femeile vin de pe Venus, bărbații de la băut (2013) și Bărbații vin de pe Marte, femeile de la coafor (2015). De același autor, la Editura Polirom au mai apărut romanele Sebastian, ceilalți și-un câine (2014), Extraconjugal (2017, 2018) și Contaminare (2019).
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Dubravka Ugrešić
Dubravka Ugrešić was a Yugoslav, Croatian and Dutch writer. She left Croatia in 1993 and was based in Amsterdam since 1996. She described herself as "post-Yugoslav, transnational, or, even more precisely, postnational writer".
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Dubravka Ugrešić earned her degrees in Comparative Literature, Russian Language and Literature at the University of Zagreb, and worked for twenty years at the Institute for Theory of Literature at Zagreb University, successfully pursuing parallel careers as a writer and a literary scholar.
She started writing professionally with screenplays for children’s television programs, as an undergraduate. In 1971 she published her first book for children Mali plamen, which was awarded a prestigious Croatian literary prize for ch -
Mirjana Drljević
Mirjana Drljević, rođena 1971. u Beogradu, autorka je drame San o Svetom Petru Cetinjskom igrane u Crnogorskom narodnom pozorištu i javno čitane u Narodnom pozorištu u Beogradu, kao i drame Suncokreti izvođene u Narodnom pozorištu „Sterija“ u Vršcu.
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Niko nije zaboravljen i ničega se ne sećamo njen je debitantski roman.
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Zlata Filipović
Zlata Filipović is a Bosnian-Croat writer and author of the book Zlata's Diary.
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From 1991 to 1993, she wrote in her diary (called "Mimy") about the horrors of war in Sarajevo, through which she was living. Some news agencies and media outlets labeled her the "Anne Frank of Sarajevo". Unlike Frank, however, Zlata and her family all survived and escaped to Paris in 1993 where they stayed for a year. She attended St. Andrew's College, Dublin senior school, going on to graduate from the University of Oxford in 2001 with a BA in human sciences, and now lives in Dublin, Ireland where she also studied at Trinity College Dublin.
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Ismail Kadare
Ismail Kadare (also spelled Kadaré) was an Albanian novelist and poet. He has been a leading literary figure in Albania since the 1960s. He focused on short stories until the publication of his first novel, The General of the Dead Army. In 1996 he became a lifetime member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of France. In 1992, he was awarded the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca; in 2005, he won the inaugural Man Booker International Prize, in 2009 the Prince of Asturias Award of Arts, and in 2015 the Jerusalem Prize. He has divided his time between Albania and France since 1990. Kadare has been mentioned as a possible recipient for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times. His works have been published in about 30 languages.
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Ivo Andrić
Ivo Andrić (Serbian Cyrillic: Иво Андрић; born Ivan Andrić) was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule.
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Born in Travnik in Austria-Hungary, modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, Andrić attended high school in Sarajevo, where he became an active member of several South Slav national youth organizations. Following the assassination of Archduke of Austria Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Andrić was arrested and imprisoned by the Austro-Hungarian police, who suspected his involvement in the plot. As the authorities were unable to build a strong case against him, he spent much of the war under house arrest, only being r -
Remus Boldea
Remus Boldea este absolvent al Facultatii de Filosofie din Bucuresti. In 2019 a participat la cursul de creative writing tinut de Florin Iaru si Marius Chivu. A publicat proza scurta in Revista de Povestiri in cadrul atelierelor Creative Writing Sundays.
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Tanja Stupar Trifunović
Tanja Stupar Trifunović rođena je u Zadru 1977. godine. Diplomirala je na Filološkom fakultetu, Odsjek za srpski jezik i književnost u Banjaluci.
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Dosad je objavila knjige poezije Kuća od slova (Zadužbina "Petar Kočić", Banjaluka-Beograd, 1999), Uspostavljanje ravnoteže (KOV, Vršac, 2002), O čemu misle varvari dok doručkuju (Zoro, Sarajevo-Zagreb, 2008) i izbor iz kolumni Adornova svraka (Zalihica, Sarajevo 2007).
Poezija joj je nagrađivana i prevođena na engleski, njemački, poljski, slovenački, makedonski, mađarski, danski, francuski i malajalam jezik.
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Ivan Tokin
Ivan Tokin (rođen 1971. godine) je savremeni srpski pisac, koji živi i radi u Beogradu. Od 2009. godine redovno piše tekstove u novinama, a 2014. objavljuje svoju prvu knjigu. Objavio je dva romana, nekoliko zbirki priča i jednu poemu.
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Tokin nam u svojim delima nudi svakodnevicu i čovekovo uklapanje sa njom. Svoje likove nam predstavlja kao najnormalnije ljude u njihovim svakodnevnim ritualima, suočene sa činjenicom da je sadašnjost sve što imamo, naš jedini posed. Poziva nas da živimo život do kraja, da primećujemo, da uranjamo u svakodnevicu, širimo svoju svest i naprosto - budemo tu, postojimo.
Srca čitalaca osvojio je autentičnom poetikom svakodnevice, trenutaka, situacija koje nam izmiču u mimohodu.
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Lorenzo Marone
Lorenzo Marone è uno scrittore italiano. Laureato in Giurisprudenza, ha esercitato per quasi dieci anni la professione di avvocato. Ha pubblicato La tentazione di essere felici (Longanesi, 2015), La tristezza ha il sonno leggero (Longanesi, 2016), Magari domani resto (Feltrinelli, 2017), Un ragazzo normale, uscito sempre (Feltrinelli, 2018). A novembre del 2018 è uscita per Feltrinelli la raccolta Cara Napoli, che racchiude gli articoli pubblicati dal 2015 su La Repubblica Napoli e che è giunto alla seconda ristampa. Nel 2019 ha pubblicato, ancora per Feltrinelli, Tutto sarà perfetto.
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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.
His first novel, Obješeni (The Hanged) was published in 2005, but received no significant reception.
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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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Μαρία Ιορδανίδου
Maria Iordanidou
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Γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1897 και έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στον Πειραιά και το Βατούμ της Ρωσίας. Φοίτησε σε ρωσικό γυμνάσιο, στη Σταυρούπολη, όπου τη βρήκε η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση. Το 1919 γύρισε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και λίγο αργότερα πήγε στην Αλεξάνδρεια, όπου παντρεύτηκε τον Ιορδάνη Ιορδανίδη. Το 1923 επέστρεψαν μαζί στην Αθήνα, αλλά σύντομα ο Ιορδανίδης έφυγε.
Εξαιτίας των συνθηκών της ζωής της, η Ιορδανίδου απέκτησε μεγάλη γλωσσομάθεια και εργάστηκε ως ιδιωτική υπάλληλος. Έγινε γνωστή στο λογοτεχνικό χώρο με το έργο Λωξάντρα, που έγραψε σε ηλικία 65 χρονών, το 1962, και γνώρισε πολλές επανεκδόσεις. Η Λωξάντρα περιγράφει με μεγάλη ζωντάνια και χιούμορ τα έθιμα και τη ζωή των Ελλήνων της Πόλης και βασίζεται -
Srđan Valjarević
Srđan Valjarević, popularni savremeni srpski književnik, rođen je u Beogradu. Objavio je više romana i knjiga poezije i proze.
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List na korici hleba (1990)
Džo Frejzer i 49 pesama (1992)
Ljudi za stolom (1994)
Zimski dnevnik (1995)
Džo Frejzer i 49 (+24) pesama (1996)
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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.
Kao književnik debitovao je 1997. socijalnim trilerom Ovce od gipsa, u kojem problematizuje tematiku ratnog zločina u -
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.
Ante Tomić now writes for Jutarnji list. In 2004 he travelled across USA in order to cover presidential campaign by talking to "ordinary" people. -
Georgi Gospodinov
Georgi Gospodinov is a writer, poet and playwright based in Sofia, Bulgaria. He studied Bulgarian Philology at Sofia University. Later he defended a PhD on New Bulgarian literature with the Bulgaria Academy of Science's Institute for Literature. He is one of the most translated Bulgarian authors after 1989. He published the first Bulgarian graphic novel The Eternal Fly (Вечната муха).
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Meša Selimović
Mehmed "Meša" Selimović was a Yugoslav and a Bosnian writer from Bosnia and Herzegovina and one of the greatest Bosnian writers of the 20th century. His most famous works deal with Bosnia and Herzegovina and the culture of the Bosniak inhabitants of the Ottoman province of Bosnia.
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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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Michel Houellebecq
Michel Houellebecq (born Michel Thomas), born 26 February 1958 (birth certificate) or 1956 on the French island of Réunion, is a controversial and award-winning French novelist. To admirers he is a writer in the tradition of literary provocation that reaches back to the Marquis de Sade and Baudelaire; to detractors he is a peddler, who writes vulgar sleazy literature to shock. His works though, particularly Atomised, have received high praise from the French literary intelligentsia, with generally positive international critical response, Having written poetry and a biography of the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, he brought out his first novel Extension du domaine de la lutte in 1994. Les particules élémentaires followed in 1998 and Platefo
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Dževad Karahasan
Dževad Karahasan rođen u Duvnu, je bosanskohercegovački književnik, dramatičar, esejist, romanopisac.
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U rodnom je gradu završio osnovno i gimnazijsko školovanje. Diplomirao je na Filozofskom fakultetu u Sarajevu, studij komparativne književnosti i teatrologije, a u Zagrebu, na Filozofskom fakultetu u Zagrebu, branio je doktorski rad. Dugi niz godina učestvovao je u uređivanju sarajevske revije kao urednik za kulturna pitanja Odjek, te dramaturg u Zeničkom narodnom pozorištu.[2]
Od 1986-93. Karahasan je na mjestu docenta za dramaturgiju i historiju drame na Akademija scenskih umjetnosti u Sarajevu, gdje vrši dužnost dekana. Bio je glavni urednik časopisa za teoriju i kritiku umjetnost Izraz u Sarajevu. Od 1993. nakon odlaska iz Sarajeva zbog r -
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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Alex Christofi
ALEX CHRISTOFI is Editorial Director at Transworld Publishers and author of books published in twelve languages, including the novels Let Us Be True and Glass, winner of the Betty Trask Prize for fiction. He has written for numerous publications including the Guardian, the London Magazine, The White Review and the Brixton Review of Books, and contributed an essay to the anthology What Doesn't Kill You: Fifteen Stories of Survival. Dostoevsky in Love, his first work of non-fiction, was selected as a Times and Sunday Times literary non-fiction book of the year and shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize. His latest book is CYPRIA: A journey to the heart of the Mediterranean (Bloomsbury, 2024).
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Želimir Periš
Rođen 1975.
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Piše .
Objavio je:
Mučenice, Algoritam, 2013. (prijevod na slovenski i bugarski, adaptirano u dvije kazališne predstave)
Mima i kvadratura duga, Algoritam/24 sata, 2014. (finale tportala za roman godine)
Mima i vaše kćeri, 24 sata, 2015.
x, Algoritam, 2016.
Mladenka kostonoga, oceanmore, 2020. (nagrade: tportal za najbolji hrvatski roman godine, Kočićevo pero)
Straška postavlja teška pitanja, Fierce Women, 2020.
Straška izvrće neistine, Fierce Women, 2021.
Gracija od čempresa, oceanmore, 2023.
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Raymond Jean
Raymond Jean (1925–2012) wrote more than 40 books during his lifetime – novels, short-story collections and essays. He was awarded the Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle in 1983. His novella La Lectrice (Reader for Hire) became a cinema hit starring Miou-Miou. The film won the César Award for Best Supporting Actor and was named the best feature at the 1988 Montreal World Film Festival.
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Andrzej Szczypiorski
Born in Warsaw in 1924, Szczypiorski was a journalist and novelist. He took part in the Warsaw Uprising and was imprisoned after the fall of the Uprising in Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. He died on 16 May 2000.
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He began working as a journalist in 1946. Since the appearance of his first collection of stories in 1955, he had published more than 20 volumes of novels, reportage, newspaper columns, essays and sketches. Szczypiorski aligned himself with the democratic opposition in the late 1970s, being interned during Martial Law (1981-1982) and then, in 1989, being elected Senator (holding office until 1991). After resigning from an active political role, he became one of the country's most highly respected columnists, as well as a moral and -
Josip Kozarac
Josip Kozarac (Vinkovci, 18. ožujka 1858. - Koprivnica, 21. kolovoza 1906.), hrvatski je prozaist - novelist, romanopisac, pjesnik, pisac pripovjetki i polemičar, diplomirani inženjer šumarstva, jedan od najpoznatijih hrvatskih šumara.
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Bio je jedan od važnijih hrvatskih prozaista, novelista, polemičara, pjesnika, ujedno i diplomirani inženjer šumarstva te najpoznatiji hrvatski šumar. Osnovnu školu završio je u Vinkovcima, te je pohađao gimnaziju koju je završio s puno muke, ali se sve promijenilo kada je upisao fakultet šumarstva u Beču. Diplomirao je 1879. godine na Visokoj školi za kulturu tla kao najbolji student na svojoj godini. Prije fakulteta živio je dosta slobodan i neobuzdan život. Puno je vremena provodio u prirodi, jednostavno pr -
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Kapka Kassabova
Kapka Kassabova was born and raised in Sofia, Bulgaria in the 1970s and 1980s. Her family emigrated to New Zealand just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and she spent her late teens and twenties in New Zealand where she studied French Literature, and published two poetry collections and the Commonwealth-Writers Prize-winner for debut fiction in Asia-Pacific, Reconnaissance.
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In 2004, Kapka moved to Scotland and published Street Without a Name (Portobello, 2008). It is a story of the last Communist childhood and a journey across post-communist Bulgaria. It was short-listed for the Dolman Travel Book Award.
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Péter Nádas
Hungarian novelist, essayist, and dramatist, a major central European literary figure. Nádas made his international breakthrough with the monumental novel A Book of Memories (1986), a psychological novel following the tradition of Proust, Thomas Mann, and magic realism.
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Péter Nádas was born in Budapest, as the son of a high-ranking party functionary. Nádas's grandfather, Moritz Grünfeld, changed his name into Hungarian, which was considered a scandal in the family. Nádas's youth was shadowed by the loss of his parents. Nádas's mother died of cancer when he was young and his father committed suicide. At the age of 16 his uncle gave him a camera, and after dropping out of school Nádas turned to photojournalism. During the late 1960s and early -
Iben Dissing Sandahl
Iben Sandahl is the author of The Danish Way of Parenting: What the Happiest People in the World Know About Raising Confident, Capable Kids.
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She is a professional parenting expert, narrative psychotherapist MPF, family counselor, teacher and speaker. She has more than 20 years of experienced insight into child psychology and education, which in a most natural way anchor the Danish way of practicing parenthood. -
Alexandru Lamba
Alexandru Lamba s-a născut în 1980, la Brașov. Este absolvent al facultății de Inginerie Electrică și Știința Calculatoarelor, în prezent activând în domeniul IT.
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În domeniul literar, a debutat în Gazeta SF cu o povestire în 2013.
În registru SF, a publicat două romane: „Sub steaua infraroșie” (ed. Tritonic, 2016) și „Arhitecții speranței” (ed. Tritonic, 2017), un volum de proză scurtă „Singurătatea singularității” (ed. Herg Benet, 2018) și volumul „Cărări pe gheață”, primul al seriei Young-Adult „Stele și gheață” (ed. Herg Benet, 2019). A scris scenariul pentru albumele de bandă desenată „Focurile lumii noi” (ed. Geek Network, 2018) și „Povești din lumi și timpuri” (ed Pavcon, 2022), ilustrat de Alexandra Gold.
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Bogdan-Alexandru Stănescu
Bogdan-Alexandru Stănescu (n. 1979) este scriitor, eseist, traducător, editor, preşedintele Festivalului Internaţional de Literatură de la Bucureşti (FILB). A debutat cu cronică literară în revista Luceafărul (1999), pe cînd era junior editor al Ziarului de Duminică. A publicat proză scurtă în majoritatea antologiilor „Prima mea…” de la Editura ART. În 2010 a publicat împreună cu Vasile Ernu volumul Ceea ce ne desparte. Epistolarul de la Hanul lui Manuc (Polirom), iar în 2012 a debutat ca poet, cu volumul Apoi, după bătălie, ne-am tras sufletul (Cartea Românească), nominalizat la premiile revistei Observator cultural şi la premiile Radio România Cultural pe anul 2012. În 2013 a publicat la Editura ART volumul Enter Ghost. Scrisori imaginare
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Zoran Ferić
Zoran Ferić is the author of three novels and two collections of short stories.
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He is among the most widely read contemporary Croatian prose writers.
His work has received numerous prizes, including the Ksaver Šandor Gjalski Prize in 2000 and the Jutarnji List Award for the Best work of prose fiction in 2001.
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Damir Karakaš
Rođen 1967. u selu Plašćica kod Brinja u Lici. U Zagrebu je studirao agronomiju, pravo, novinarstvo, a nekoliko godina radio je i kao novinar Crne kronike Večernjeg lista, u Splitu. Od 2001. živi u Bordeauxu u Francuskoj, a od 2002. do 2007. u Parizu gdje se uzdržava sviranjem harmonike. U Parizu na Novoj Sorboni studira i francuski jezik, izvodi performanse, te izlaže konceptualne radove. Još kao tinajdžer objavljuje karikature i crteže u mnogobrojnim novinama u bivšoj Jugoslaviji, i dobio je nekoliko nagrada za karikaturu. Objavio je knjigu putopisa „Bosanci su dobri ljudi“ (1999), roman „Kombetari“ (2000), zbirku priča „Kino Lika“ (2001), roman „Kako sam ušao u Europu“ (2004) zbirku priča „Eskimi“ (2007), roman „Sjajno mjesto za nesreću“
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Milena Marković
Milena Marković rođena je 1974. godine u Zemunu. Diplomirala je dramaturgiju na Fakultetu dramskih umetnosti. Njene drame: "Šine", "Paviljoni", "Brod za lutke", "Beli beli svet", "Šuma blista", "Nahod Simeon" i druge, izvođene su u Srbiji i inostranstvu. Dobitnica je specijalne nagrade u Beču za najbolje drame sa ex-Yu prostora, specijalne nagrade Sterijinog pozorja, nagrade "Borislav Mihajlović-Mihiz", kao i nagrade “Miloš Crnjanski” za knjigu “Tri drame”. Po njenom scenariju Oleg Novković snimio je film "Sutra ujutru" i dokumentarni film "Rudarska opera". Objavila je i tri zbirke poezije: "Pas koji je pojo sunce" (2001), "Istina ima teranje" (2003) i "Crna kašika" (2006). "Ptičje oko na tarabi", "Pre nego što sve počne da se vrti"...
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Lidija Dimkovska
Poet and novelist from North Macedonia living in Slovenia. Born in 1971, Lidija writes in Macedonian. She has published seven books of poetry, three novels, one American diary and one collection of short stories which have been awarded and translated into 15 languages (English, German, Polish, Hungarian, Slovak, Czech, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, French, Croatian, Italian, Albanian, Bulgarian and Latvian).
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Lidija has participated at numerous international literary festivals (Princeton Poetry Festival, Stockholm, Rotterdam, Sarajevo, Belgrade, Vilnius, Manchester, Chicago, Zagreb, Vilenica, Medana, Struga, Leipzig, Lido Adriano, Manchester, Kazan, Dresden, Taipei, Cork, Warsaw, Berlin, etc.) and was a writer-in-residence in London, Berlin, -
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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Bojan Krivokapić
Bojan Krivokapić je objavio sledeće knjige: „Trči Lilit, zapinju demoni“ (kratke priče, 2013), „Žoharov let“ (poezija, 2014), „Proleće se na put sprema“ (roman, 2017), „Gnezdo dečaka“ (poezija, 2019) i „Vila Fazanka“ (roman, 2023). Dobitnik je nagrada za prozu: Ulaznica (Zrenjanin, 2011), Đura Đukanov (Kikinda, 2012), Edo Budiša (Pazin, 2014), Lapis Histriae (Umag, 2021), Biber (Beograd – Sarajevo, 2021), Milutin Uskoković (Užice, 2021), Laza K. Lazarević (Šabac, 2022), kao i nagrade Mak Dizdar za zbirku poezije (Stolac, 2013). Za roman „Proleće se na put sprema“ godine 2018. dobija Nagradu Mirko Kovač za najbolje delo mladog autora u Srbiji, Bosni i Hercegovini, Hrvatskoj i Crnoj Gori. Književni tekstovi su mu prevedeni na italijanski, nem
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Bogdan Răileanu
Bogdan Răileanu a absolvit Facultatea de Jurnalism din cadrul Universității din București. În 2015 a debutat cu o povestire în revista Iocan. A publicat volumul de povestiri Tot spațiul dintre gîndurile mele (Polirom, 2017), romanele Dinții ascuțiți ai binelui (2018) și Teoria apropierii (2019) la Humanitas, Să nu lași moartea să te găsească (Polirom, 2020). Preda, viața ca o pradă (Polirom, 2022) și Picioare de lotus (proză scurtă, Polirom, 2024).
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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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Andrej Nikolaidis
Andrej Nikolaidis was born in 1974 in Sarajevo, to a mixed Montenegrin-Greek family. Until the age of six, he lived in the city of Ulcinj, where he returned in 1992 after the war in Bosnia erupted. Since 1994, he has written for regional independent and liberal media, as well as for cultural magazines. He is considered by many to be one of the most influential intellectuals of the younger generation in the region, known for his anti-war activism and for his promotion of the rights of minorities.
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Nikolaidis also publicly defended the victims of police torture, which resulted in his receiving many threats, including a death threat during a live radio appearance. He has often stated that he considers freedom of speech to be the basis of freedom -
Ana Barton
Fiindcă am fost gimnastă până mi-au calculat vârsta osoasă şi-au stabilit că despre performanţă n-o să poată fi vorba din motive de lungime excesivă, aş putea spune că am o mobilitate impresionantă. Am 40 de ani. Sunt însă atât de imatură încât aproape că mi-e ruşine să-i declar. De arătat, da, îi arăt pe toţi, deşi, uneori, parcă mai văd şi zecimale pe-acolo. De şcoală ce să zic? Am o educaţie eclectică, model toptan: Teologie, Litere, Cultură şi Civilizaţie Ebraică, Psiholingvistică. Babel ori foame. Sigur, arareori mă înţeleg pe mine şi cu mine, dar m-am lăsat şi de dramatizări. Cine sunt? Mama unei copile de 12 ani şi jumătate pe care o cheamă Rada. Cum sunt? Vie, deocamdată. Binecuvântată stare. Ce fac? Am trei caiete, unul acasă, unul
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Richard West
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Richard West was a British journalist and author best known for his reporting of the Vietnam War and Yugoslavia.
Born in London, West attended Marlborough College before his national service spell in Trieste awakened a lifelong interest in Yugoslavia.
Starting off his journalistic career at the Manchester Guardian, West became a foreign correspondent in Yugoslavia, Africa, Central America and Indochina. Described by Neal Ascherson as the "paragon of the independent journalist for his generation", he would spend much of the next two decades in Vietnam, Africa and eastern Europe, where he was codenamned Agent Friday by Communist Poland's secret police. Among his books are The Making of the Prime Minis -
Cătălin Vasilescu
CĂTĂLIN VASILESCU (n. 1959), profesor de chirurgie la Universitatea de Medicină și Farmacie din București și șef al Disciplinei Chirurgie Generală a Institutului Clinic Fundeni, a adus contribuții importante în chirurgia oncologică, chirurgia robotică și cercetarea medicală, mai ales în genomică. Are preocupări constante pentru istoria medicinei și istoria ideilor, mai ales din timpul Primului Război Mondial, domenii în care a publicat articole despre Dimitrie Gerota („Istoria lucrului bine făcut“, 2005), Toma Ionescu („Thoma Ionescu sau Wilhelm von Waldeyer? Istoria unei idei călătoare“, 2010), Victor Gomoiu („Operația Thoma Ionescu–Victor Gomoiu“, 2016), Fritz Haber („Chimia aerului – tragicul caz al lui Fritz Haber, laureat al Premiului
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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.
His first novel, Obješeni (The Hanged) was published in 2005, but received no significant reception.
Dark Mother Earth (2013), his second novel, won The Tportal prize for Croatian novel of the year and is hailed as one of the best Croatian novels in the last 50 years. T -
Remus Boldea
Remus Boldea este absolvent al Facultatii de Filosofie din Bucuresti. In 2019 a participat la cursul de creative writing tinut de Florin Iaru si Marius Chivu. A publicat proza scurta in Revista de Povestiri in cadrul atelierelor Creative Writing Sundays.
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Richard Pupala
Richard Pupala (1972) je prozaik. Pochádza z Veľkého Krtíša. Študoval žurnalistiku na FiFUK a scenáristiku na VŠMU v Bratislave. Počas štúdií scenáristiky na VŠMU sa živil ako barman v legendárnom U-clube, neskôr ako novinár. V roku 2007 zvíťazil v súťaži Poviedka. Momentálne pracuje na hranej filmovej dráme Pivnica a ako dramaturg sa podieľa na filmovej adaptácii dvoch svojich poviedok zo zbierky Návštevy.
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Isak Samokovlija
Isak Samokovlija was a prominent Bosnian Jewish writer. By profession he was a physician. His stories describe the life of the Bosnian Sephardic Jews.
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Samokovlija was born into a Sephardi Jewish family in Goražde, Bosnia and Herzegovina at the time of the Austro-Hungarian occupation. After completing primary school Samokovlija went to Sarajevo, attended high school and relocated to Vienna where he studied medicine. Later he worked as a doctor in the towns Goražde and Fojnica (1921–25) before beginning a regular job at Sarajevo's Koševo hospital in 1925. At the beginning of the Second World War, he was a department head at the Koševo hospital. In April 1941 he was discharged from service as well as other Jews, but soon he was mobilized as a m -
Rodolphe Archibald Reiss
Rudolphe Archibald Reiss (8 July 1875 – 7 August 1929) was a German-Swiss criminology-pioneer, forensic scientist, professor and writer.
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Ivo Brešan
Ivo Brešan was born in Vodice (Croatia) in 1936. He studied at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. From 1960 until 1983 he worked as a graduate teacher at the Sibenik Grammar School. Since 1983, he has been the art director of the Šibenik Theatre and the Šibenik Intemationational Children's Festival. Brešan is one of Croatia's most performed contemporary playwrights; he often writes in the Šibenik dialect. He has written several very succesful movies scenarios.
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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 -
Enver Čolaković
Čolaković Enver je bošnjački prozaik, pjesnik i prevodilac. Prevodio sa mađarskog i njemačkog jezika, objavljivao je i stručne tekstove iz fizike i matematike, a radio je kao profesor, pozorišni režiser, korektor i urednik. Studirao je matematiku i fiziku u Beogradu i Budimpešti, a historiju u Zagrebu. Pisati je počeo kao dječak, i to na dva jezika: bosanskom i mađarskom. U periodu do 1945. objavio je više pripovijedaka i eseja te roman Legenda o Ali-paši (1944), prošao je "križni put" od Bleiburga do Zagreba, poslije proganjan i onemogućavan da bilo šta objavljuje osim prijevoda, a zna se da je bio anonimni prevoditelj djela Ervina Sinka s mađarskog. Tek četvrt vijeka kasnije izašlo je drugo izdanje njegovog romana (1970), koji i jezikom i
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Maarten Inghels
Maarten Inghels is a writer and poet.
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Maarten Inghels debuteerde in 2008 met ‘Tumult’ in de Sandwich-reeks onder redactie van Gerrit Komrij en ontwikkelde zich sindsdien tot een originele kunstenaar, dichter en schrijver. Met zijn dichtbundel 'Contact' (De Bezige Bij) verbond hij poëzie, beeld en acties die ontstonden tijdens zijn Stadsdichterschap van Antwerpen. Maarten Inghels is een meervoudige winnaar van de Vincent Van Meenenprijs. Zijn roman 'Het mirakel van België' over zijn ervaringen met de grootste meesteroplichter ter wereld verschijnt in november 2021 bij Das Mag. -
Predrag Matvejević
Predrag Matvejević was born in Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina, at the time part of The Kingdom of Yugoslavia) to a Croatian mother and a Ukrainian father. He was a writer and scholar who taught at universities in Zagreb, Paris and Rome. He is best known for his 1987 non-fiction book Mediterranean: A Cultural Landscape, a seminal work of cultural history of the Mediterranean region.
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Kalju Kruusa
Kalju Kruusa (kodanikunimi Jaanus Valk) on eesti luuletaja ja tõlkija. Kalju Kruusa lõpetas 1992 Tallinna 20. Keskkooli ja astus aasta pärast Tartu Ülikooli, kus õppis 1993–1997 inglise filoloogiat ja semiootikat. Aastal 1997 läks ta Eesti Humanitaarinstituuti romanistika erialale ja lõpetas Tallinna Ülikooli 2008 bakalaureusetööga "Mallarmé luule: kogelemine". Aastatel 2004–2005 viibis ta vahetusüliõpilasena Tōkyōs Waseda ülikoolis ja õppis jaapani keelt.
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Aastal 2001 asutas ta koos Hasso Krulliga tõlkeluule internetiajakirja Ninniku.
Kalju Kruusa on Eesti Kirjanike Liidu ja Eesti PEN-klubi liige. Kalju Kruusa esimene luulekogu "Meeleolu" ilmus 1999. Täpselt dateeritud luuletused on ka meeleoluliselt täpsed, sündmuspaik tavaliselt suvine aed -
Selvedin Avdić
Selvedin Avdić is a Bosnian author and journalist. His first book was a collection of short stories titled "Tennants and other Fantoms" and it was a tourist guide to the historic Bosnian town of Jajca and a factual account of Zenica prison.
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Furthermore, his short stories have also appeared in various anthologies and collections. He works as the editor-in-chief of the online magazine Žurnal and also edits his own radio show, Free Fight, on BH Radio. His first novel, Seven Terrors, was published in 2010, and immediately short-listed for one of the most prestigious literary awards in the region. It was published in English in 2012 (translation by Coral Petkovich) and is long-listed for the Dublin Impac Literary Award 2014. -
Mladen Milosavljević
Mladen Milosavljević je rođen 1982. godine u Smederevskoj Palanci. Diplomirao je na Filozofskom fakultetu u Beogradu, na smeru za Etnologiju i antropologiju.
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Snimio je nekoliko dokumentarnih i jedan igrani film (Naprata, 2013).
Vlasnik je izdavačke kuće Bedem.
Autor je romana ''Kal juga'' (Strahor, 2018), romana/zbirke ''Jezava'' (Bedem, 2020), Večna kuća (Bedem, 2022), Naprata ( Bedem, 2024) i poema za decu ''Olalije'' (Bedem, 2021), "Abrakadabra a brak za dabra" (Bedem, 2023)
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Stevan Vraneš
Stevan Vraneš rođen je 1979. godine u Beogradu, gde je diplomirao dramaturgiju na Fakultetu dramskih umetnosti. Nakon više od petnaest godina pauze, pisanju se vratio pozorišnim komadom Svedobro, koji je 2017. objavljen u časopisu Teatron, a zatim izveden u Narodnom pozorištu Užice i selektovan za Sterijino pozorje 2018. godine.
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Trenutno živi u Bristolu, na jugozapadu Engleske. Voli da piše u Jorkširu, jer ga podseća na Crnu Goru u kojoj je, kao dete, provodio leta, u Devonu, zbog dramatične obale Atlantika, i Andaluziji, jer je i zimi toplo i sunčano.
Paralelno sa pokušajima da (p)ostane pisac, održava u životu i karijeru stručnjaka za komunikacije, koja mu je omogućila da vidi sveta i upozna ljude. Oženjen je već dvadeset godina i ima dva s -
Hermann Huppen
Hermann was born in 1938 in Bévercé (now a part of Malmedy) in Liège Province. After studying to become a furniture maker and working as interior architect, Hermann made his debut as comic book artist in 1964 in the comics magazine Spirou with a four page story. Greg noticed his talent and offered him to work for his studio. In 1966, he began illustrating the Bernard Prince series written by Greg, published in the comic magazine Tintin periodical. In 1969, also in collaboration with Greg, he began the western series Comanche. This appeared at the same time as other western series such as Blueberry.
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Hermann began writing his own stories in 1977, starting the post-apocalyptic Jeremiah series, which is still produced today. In the same period, -
Dejan Ognjanović
Dejan Ognjanović was born in Niš, Serbia, in 1973. He worked as a TA in American Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy, Niš, Serbia (1999-2009). Got his MA in 2009 ('Gothic Motifs in the Works of E. A. Poe'). Got his PhD in 2012 ('Historical Poetics of Horror Genre in Anglo-American Literature'). Published literary and film essays and criticism in various magazines.
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In Serbia he has published several books: novels, In Vivo (2003), The Seducer (2014) and Prokletije (The Damned Mountains, 2021); three studies: Faustian Screen: The Devil in Cinema (2006), In the Hills, the Horrors: Serbian Horror Film (2007) and Poetics of Horror (2014); a collection of essays– A Study in Terror (2008) and a book of interviews More than Truth: Kadijević on K -
Ornela Vorpsi
Ornela Vorpsi, born in Tirana in 1968, left her home country at the age of 22, lived in Milan for six years and finally moved to Paris in 1997. The prose author, fine artist, photographer and video artist studied at the colleges of art in Tirana, Milan and Paris. She has participated in exhibitions of contemporary art, most recently "The Balkans crossroad the future" (2004, Bologna), "Blood & Honey" (2003, Vienna) and "Politique d'intérieur" (2002, Paris). In 2001, she published "Nothing obvious", a volume of her photographic works (Scalo Verlag, Zurich). This was followed by two books, written in Italian but first published in France "Le pays où l'on ne meurt jamais" (The country where one never dies, Actes Sud, 2004, translated into more
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Jelena Lengold
Born on 15 July 1959 in Kruševac, Serbia. She has published eleven books which include six books of poetry, four books of stories and a novel. She is represented in a number of anthologies of poetry and stories, and her works have also been translated into a number of foreign languages. Jelena Lengold has worked as a journalist and an editor in the culture desk at Radio Belgrade. She has afterwards worked as a project coordinator of Nansenskolen Humanistic Academy in Lillehammer, Norway for the subject Conflict Theory. Since September 2011 she has been a freelance artist, dedicated solely to writing as her only profession. For the collection of stories The Fairground Magician she received the following awards: Biljana Jovanović, Žensko pero
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Ivan Slamnig
Ivan Slamnig was a Croatian poet, novelist, literary theorist and translator.
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Slamnig was born in Metković. He graduated from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in 1955 and later taught at its Department of Comparative Literature.
Slamnig is considered one of the most important Croatian poets of the 20th century. His laconic, humor-infused modernist poetry is difficult to categorize, and proved popular with the critics and the public alike. His poem "Barbara", set to music by Zvonko Špišić, was a hit in 1975.
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Éric Chevillard
Éric Chevillard is a French novelist. He has won awards for several novels including La nébuleuse du crabe in 1993, which won the Fénéon Prize for Literature.
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His work often plays with the codes of narration sometimes to the degree that it is even difficult to understand which story is related in his books, and has consequently been classified as postmodern literature. He has been noted for his associations with Les Éditions de Minuit, a publishing-house largely associated with the leading experimental writers composing in French today. -
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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Desanka Maksimović
She graduated from the gymnasium in Valjevo and the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy.
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Desanka was a professor of Serbian language from 1923 until 1953 in several schools: Obrenovac gymnasium, then the Third Female Gymnasium in Belgrade, after that she spent a year teaching in Dubrovnik (Croatia), as well as the First female gymnasium in Belgrade. One of her best students was Mira Alečković, who also became a poet and a close friend.
In August 1933 she married Sergij Slastikov, but they had no children of their own.
Because of the undying value of her poetry, Desanka Maksimović was elected on December 17, 1959 as an associate member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU), and on December 16, 1965 she became a regular mem -
George Cornilă
George CORNILĂ (n. 1986, Focșani) a debutat cu romanul Cu dinții strânși (2007; reeditat în 2022). Au urmat romanele Miezul nopții în Cartierul Felinarelor Stinse (2013; 2014; 2021), Regele lupilor (2016), Expurgo (2018; 2019), Diluvium (2019) și Silex (2024), biografia romanțată Hasdeu. Duhuri (2023), volumele de povestiri și nuvele Arlequine (2018), Entropic (2020) și Rezervația (2022) și cartea cu povești pentru copii Toxi Foxy (2018), pentru care a primit mai multe premii naționale și internaționale.
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Este prezent cu proze în peste zece antologii apărute în România și Marea Britanie. A fost copywriter, secretar general de redacție și redactor-șef.
Face traduceri din literatura americană și britanică, scrie articole pentru Dilema veche, O -
Marko Pogačar
Marko Pogačar rođen je 1984. godine u Splitu. Objavio je četiri knjige pesama, tri knjige eseja te knjigu kratkih priča. Urednik je u književnom časopisu Quorum i dvonedeljniku za kulturna i društvena zbivanja Zarez. Bio je stipendista fondacija Civitella Ranieri, Passa Porta, Milo Dor, Brandenburger Tor, Internationales Haus der Autoren Graz, Récollets-Paris, itd. Nagrađivan je za poeziju, prozu i esejistiku, a tekstovi su mu prevođeni na tridesetak jezika.
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Milán Füst
Milán Füst (1888–1967) was a Hungarian writer, poet and playwright. In 1908 he met the writer Ernő Osvát and published his first work in the literary revue Nyugat. He befriended Dezső Kosztolányi and Frigyes Karinthy. After studying law and economics in Budapest, he became a teacher in a school of business. In 1918, he became the director of Vörösmarty Academy, but was forced to leave the post in 1921.
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In 1928, a nervous breakdown led him to spend six months in a sanatorium in Baden-Baden. Already since 1904 he had begun working on his long Journal. However, a large part of this work, concerning the period 1944-1945 would later be destroyed.
In 1947, he became a teacher at Képzőművészeti Főiskola. He received the Kossuth Prize in 1948, and wa -
Alex Drace-Francis
Alex Drace-Francis is Associate Professor of Modern European Cultural History at the University of Amsterdam.
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Cristian Fulaș
Cristian Fulaș a absolvit Litere, apoi studii aprofundate de teoria literaturii. Debutează în 2015 cu Fîșii de rușine (Gestalt Books; Premiul Observator cultural pentru debut; Premiul Colocviilor „Liviu Rebreanu”; Premiul revistei Accente; nominalizat la Premiile USR pentru debut; nominalizat la Premiul Cartea Anului al Ziarului de Iași). Fragmente din roman au fost traduse în franceză, italiană, germană, engleză, bulgară, croată, suedeză, maghiară. În 2015 publică Jurnal de debutant (Editura Tracus Arte), iar în 2016 După plîns (Casa de Editură Max Blecher & Gestalt Books; nominalizat la Premiul Cartea Anului al Ziarului de Iași). A tradus aproximativ cincizeci de titluri din engleză, italiană și franceză, dintre care amintim: Visul lui Ma
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Nenad Novak Stefanović
Rođen 1961. godine u Beogradu, Nenad Novak Stefanović je srpski romansijer, publicista i novinar.
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Romani: Darovi mrtvih (1988), Prisustvo Boga (1990), Pijemont (1992), Doktor sluša sving (2009) i Svetlarnik (2013),.
Hronike: Pokrštavanje petokrake (1994), Sneg u julu (1996), Jedan svet na Dunavu (1996), Odbrana Beograda (2000), Peti oktobar, godina posle (2001), Zemlja u koferu (2007), Dijalog na Dunavu (2013) i Beograd kroz ključaonicu 100 kuća (2014).
Putopis: Zemlja u koferu (2007).
Proza Nenada Novaka Stefanovića prevedena je na više jezika.Na nemački i
engleski jezik prevedene su mu sledeće knjige: Ein Volk an der Donau (Stiftung des privaten Rechts, München, 1999) i Homeland in a suitcase (University of Mary Press, Bismarck, North Dakota -
Abdulah Sidran
Abdulah Sidran, often referred to by his nickname Avdo, is a Bosnian writer and poet, who is renowned for his screenplays and dramas. His opus is characterized by a soft and soothing sensibility, where tragedy, meditativity and a specific and humorous irony change sides and play tricks on each other more often than not. After spending most of his life in Sarajevo, Sidran recently moved to a small village near Tešanj where he currently lives.
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Tatjana Gromača
Tatjana Gromača is a poet and fiction writer, and one of the greatest talents that has emerged in Croatian poetry in the last ten years. She is currently working as a journalist for Feral Tribune, a weekly magazine notorious for its political satire.
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Her travelogues, reportages, fiction, poetry, literary essays and other have been published in books and magazines. Her poems have been translated into English, Italian, Slovenian and German. -
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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Gazmend Kapllani
GAZMEND KAPLLANI was born in 1967 in Lushnjë, Albania. In January 1991 he crossed the border into Greece on foot to escape persecution by the communist secret services. In Greece he worked as a builder, a cook and a kiosk attendant, while also studying at Athens University and completing a doctorate on the image of Albanians in the Greek press and of Greeks in the Albanian press. He is now a successful writer, playwright, broadcaster and journalist with a twice-weekly column in Ta Nea, Greece's biggest daily newspaper.
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Goran Korunović
GORAN KORUNOVIĆ (1978) pesnik je i predavač na Filološkom fakultetu u Beogradu. Rođen je u Jagodini. Objavio je pesničke knjige: Gostoprimstva (2011), Reka kaiševa (2012), Crvena planeta (2014), Usta bez kapaka (2019), Manastir (2023) kao i komparativne oglede Literatura i opasnost (2013) i komparativnu studiju Muze ideologije (2020).
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Ioana Bradea
A studiat vioara, timp de opt ani, la Liceul de Muzică „Tudor Jarda”, şi apoi limbi străine la Colegiul Naţional „Liviu Rebreanu” din Bistriţa şi la Universitatea din Bucureşti (secţia portugheză–franceză). A muncit în Bucureşti, într-o piaţă şi apoi la o revistă de scurtă durată, în Bistriţa, prin fabrici şi uzine, ca translator, la un post de radio şi la o cafenea proprie etc. În prezent este căsătorită, are trei copii şi trăieşte la Bistriţa, unde lucrează la un cotidian online.
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Dobriša Cesarić
Dobriša Cesarić (Požega, 10. siječnja 1902. - Zagreb, 18. prosinca 1980.) hrvatski pjesnik i prevoditelj.
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Dobriša Cesarić je rođen u Požegi 10. siječnja 1902. godine. Djetinjstvo provodi u Osijeku gdje završava osnovnu školu i četiri niža razreda gimnazije. U jeku Prvog svjetskog rata dolazi 1912. godine u Zagreb gdje završava gimnaziju, a poslije mature 1920. godine upisuje pravo, a nakon godinu dana filozofiju.
Kratko vrijeme radi u zagrebačkom kazalištu, a zatim dugo godina kao knjižničar u Higijenskom zavodu, da bi poslije Drugog svjetskog rata radio kao urednik u izdavačkom poduzeću Zora. Umro je u Zagrebu 18. prosinca 1980. godine. Bio je član Jugoslavenske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti.
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Irena Vrkljan
Hrvatska pjesnikinja, prozaistica, radiodramatičarka, esejistica, prevoditeljica, poznata i kao "hrvatska Virginia Woolf". Djeluje na hrvatskoj književnoj sceni već više od pedeset godina.
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Studirala je na Filozofskom fakultetu u Zagrebu (arheologiju, etnologiju i germanistiku) i na Filmskoj akademiji u Berlinu. Od 1960. do 1971. radila je na televiziji kao urednica emisije Portreti i susreti. Okušala se u različitim književnim žanrovima objavivši više od dvadeset knjiga: pjesničkih zbirki, romana, autobiografske proze i eseja. Piše i scenarije za televizijske i radijske drame. Knjige su joj prevedene na više stranih jezika. Dobitnica je književnih nagrada “Ksaver Šandor Gjalski” za knjigu Svila, škare, “Ivan Goran Kovačić” za roman Marina il -
Dušan Vesić
Dušan Vesić je rođen u Beogradu, na Svetu Petku 1959. godine. Smatraju ga jednim od najvažnijih rock-novinara Jugoslavije u periodu od 1980. do 1990. godine. Pisao je za gotovo sve relevantne novine i časopise tog vremena promovišući rock-kulturu. Bio je urednik za domaću scenu u časopisima Rock i Pop Rock. Bio je direktor festivala zabavne muzike Beogradski šlager – Menadžer (1992–1995). Od 1996. godine bavi se video-produkcijom. Autor je kultnog dokumentarnog TV-serijala Rockovnik (40 epizoda) i TV-serije i filma EKV – Kao da je bilo nekad. Živi u Beogradu i Puli.
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