TAMISTAD READING SESSIONS 25: Srđan Valjarević

TAMISTAD READING SESSIONS 25: Srđan Valjarević

TAMISTAD READING SESSIONS 25: Srđan Valjarević
Samstag, 29.03.2025 |
17:30

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Srđan Valjarević is a Serbian writer and poet. He has published four novels, one book of diary prose, one fictional trilogy and one collection of poems. His books have been translated into 12 languages and have won several national and international prizes. He is a member of the Serbian Writers’ Association. He lives in Belgrade and writes columns for the Serbian weekly Nedeljnik. He received several prizes for his most famous novel Lake Como, including the Kulturkontakt Austria Prize in 2006 and Prix des lecteurs du Var in 2011. In 2005, his novel Diary of a Long Winter won the Biljana Jovanović prize.

Reading: Srđan Valjarević hosted by Maja Iskra

Translation: Mirza Purić

The reading will be held in Serbian with simultaneous English translation.

Maja Iskra grew up in the district of Dorćol in Belgrade, and studied in Vienna and Valencia. She is an engineer of landscape architecture and holds an MA in multimedia art. She lives and works in Vienna, at the intersection of urban planning and video. Her first novel, Uppercut (“Aperkat”) placed second out of 575 entries in the 2022 contest organised by the publishing house BOOKA.
Uppercut was a finalist for the Beogradski Pobednik prize, as well as for the 2023 Zlatni Suncokret prize for the best novel in the Serbian language. It was longlisted for the NIN prize, the Laza Kostić prize and the regional Meša Selimović prize. Her story ‘Hiraeth’ won the second place at the European Short Story Festival in 2018.

Mirza Purić is a literary translator. His recent work includes Marko Pogačar’s Neon South (Sandorf Passage, 2022) and Faruk Šehić’s Under Pressure (Istros Books, 2019). His has published in Agni, Asymptote, Literary Hub, EuropeNow, The Well Review, The Baffler and elsewhere.

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