In the month of May KROKODIL\u2019s 99th Writer-In-Residence will be Marija Dejanovi\u0107, who came to Belgrade thanks to the Reading Balkans project. Stay up to date with KROKODIL and join us on the 25th of May on a separate event dedicated to this Croatian writer, where we will, together with her, discuss her various literary accomplishments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Marija Dejanovi\u0107 was born in Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1992. She grew up in Croatia, Sisak, and currently lives in Zagreb, Croatia, and Larissa, Greece.
In the year 2018 her manuscript “Ethics of Bread and Horses” (“Etika kruha i konja”) won the “Goran” award for young poets and \u201cKvirin\u201d award for young poets. Manuscript “Heartwood” (“Sredi\u0161nji god”) won “Zdravko Pucak” award. Both books were published in the same year and well received by critics, readers, and media. Her trilingual book, \u201cVisible Bone\u201d, was published in Athens, Greece, by Poets\u2019 Cycle in 2020.
Her poems were published in ten world languages. She presented her poetry at festivals and readings in Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Austria, Bulgaria, Italy, and Greece. Literary reviews and translations from English by the author appeared in renown literary magazines in Croatia.
She holds a masters degree in pedagogy and is currently finishing graduate studies in literary theory.
She is a member of Croatian Writers\u2019 Society and international poets\u2019 and festivals\u2019 platform Versopolis. She\u2019s one of the editors of \u201cTema\u201d magazine. She is the assistant director of Thessalian Poetry Festival (\u03a0\u03b1\u03bd\u03b8\u03b5\u03c3\u03c3\u03b1\u03bb\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc \u03a6\u03b5\u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03b2\u03ac\u03bb \u03a0\u03bf\u03af\u03b7\u03c3\u03b7\u03c2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Photo credits: Nikola Kupre\u0161anin<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reading Balkans: Borders vs. Frontiers is a continuation of the Reading Balkans project supported by the Creative Europe 2017 program. This time the focus is on borders and cooperation with refugee writers \u2013 at a time when old wounds from the Balkan wars have not yet healed, our border issues have not yet been resolved and new policies of fear and nationalism are being built as refugees pass through our region \u2013 through our activities we want to work on dialogue, debate and a deeper understanding of our real problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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