Li Ang
Li Ang (real name Shih Shu-tuan, born in 1952 in Lukang, Taiwan) is one of the most prolific and innovative writers in contemporary Chinese-language literature. After graduating in philosophy from the University of Chinese Culture in Taipei, she studied drama at the University of Oregon before returning to teach at her alma mater. Starting with “Season of Flowers,” a short story published when she was sixteen years old in 1968, Li Ang consistently and persistently challenged her readers to confront socio-cultural problems and taboos in areas ranging from gender, sexuality, ethics, and domestic violence to state brutality, identity politics, and rampant consumerism. A pioneer in style and content, she continues to break new ground with each new work. In 2004, the French Minister of Culture and Communication awarded her the “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” as recognition for her outstanding contribution to world literature. She has published nearly twenty novels and collections of short stories, of which the most famous is “The Butcher’s Wife” (1983), which caused a great deal of controversy and reaction in Taiwanese society at the time, but also established Li Ang as one of the most significant feminist writers of recent times.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Žena jednog kasapina.
Stig Mass Andersen
Stig Mass Andersen is a writer, musician and journalist. As he started his career as a songwriter, he tries to enrich his literary expression with musical undertones. Besides being the title of the book, Bipolar Superstar is also the name of his band and his alter ego. He’s been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, from which his texts or music stem from.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Bipolar superstar.
Jelena Anđelovska
Jelena Anđelovska graduated in dramaturgy from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. She has so far published two poetry books and co-edited two poetry anthologies, Transporters (Forum Publishing Institute, Mračna komora, Novi Sad 2021) and Ovo nije dom-pesnikinje o migraciji (This is Not Home – Poets on Migration) (Bulevar Books, Novi Sad 2017). Her poetry is featured in several anthologies and has been translated into English, German, Hungarian and Italian. She collaborates with visual artists and musicians.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Kuća se nije mrdnula.
Danijel Apro
A journalist from Novi Sad. The author of the novels Telepathy and Gari and the short-story collection Reborneo. Awarded at the Nušićijada for the story “The Game of Spherical Shapes” and with Dositej’s Golden Quill for the travelogue Hitchhiker’s Guide to Borneo. He studied journalism at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad, delved into transitional justice and Southeast Asia at universities in Budapest and Surakarta. He led cultural exchange workshops for students in Indonesia. A collector of beer bottles, a cyclist, a pluviophile and a punk rocker. He supports Vojvodina and West Ham.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Trči Jorgovanka trči.
Guillermo Arriaga
Guillermo Arriaga (Mexico City, 1958) is a Mexican screenwriter and writer. He’s written four novels (The Guillotine Squad, A Sweet Scent of Death, Night Buffalo and The Savage) and a short-story collection (Retorno 201). Arriaga’s prose has been translated into many languages. Arriaga doesn’t do adaptations of his prose for the screen nor does he write on commission. He’s written screenplays for the films Amores perros, 21 Grams, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (“The Palme d’Or” for the best screenplay at the Cannes International Film Festival, 2005), Babel (Academy Award nomination for the best screenplay, 2007), Night Buffalo and The Burning Plain.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Retorno 201.
Joanis Arvanitas / Jovan Nikolaidis
A writer, publisher, journalist, persistent in the affirmation of Montenegrin multiculturalism. He sees the Balkans as a zone of tolerance and peaceful co-existence. He’s the founder of the first newspaper in the Albanian language in Montenegro – Kronika. He’s the founder and long-serving editor of the magazine for culture PLIMAplus. He’s also the founder of the branch of Matica crnogorska in Ulcinj. He’s a member of the Montenegrin Association of Independent Writers (CDNK). Some of his published works: Valdinos 33, a novel; Ulcinjska pisma, essays; Crnogorska krivica, political essays, Valdinos, stories. Čapuri, poems, Budim se sa tuđinom u sebi, poems; Montenegro i/ili Crna Gora, essays; Monahos, essay; Raznosači kostiju, essays; Kosa mu je blistala, modra, svilenkasta, stories.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Starac u zalivu.
Bernardo Atxaga
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Bernardo Atxaga (Asteasu, Basque Country, 1951) is considered to be a top representative of Basque prose. His first short-story collection Obabakoak (1988), more precisely, a hybrid form between a novel and a short-story collection, was awarded the National Prose Prize in 1989; a film was soon made based on the motifs of several stories (Obaba, 2005), directed by Montxo Armendariz. Then followed the novels Gizona bere bakardadean (The Lone Man) (1994), the National Basque Prose Critics’ Award; Soinujolearen semea (The Accordionist’s Son) (2003), The Critics’ Award in 2003, the Italian Grincane Kavur prize in 2008, based on which the director Fernando Bernués made a film with the same title and a theatre play; Zazpi etxe Frantzian (Seven Houses in France), the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize finalist in 2012, Oxford Weidenfeld translation prize finalist in 2012; Nevadako Egunak (Nevada Days) (2014), Euskadi Prize; the latest novel Etxeak eta hilobiak (Houses and Tombs) was published in 2020. In 2017 he won the International Liber Press Prize for Literature, and in 2019 the National Prize for Spanish Literature. He also writes poetry, dramas, essays and short stories. In 2003, he won the Cesare Pavese prize for poetry. His works have been translated into thirty-two languages. He is member of the Royal Academy of the Basque Language.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Dani u Nevadi.
Christos Asteriou
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Christos Asteriou was born in Athens in 1971. He studied German and Modern Greek literature at the Universities of Athens, Würzburg and Berlin. He was the head of the German department at the European Centre for Literary Translation, and he later worked as an investment consultant in a major Greek bank. He received a literature fellowship from the Berlin Academy of Arts (2013), the Fulbright Scholarship (2015) and the Berlin Senate Literary Scholarship (2020). He has published three novels and short story collection and has translated several books from German. Since 2016 he has been working as a co-writer and researcher on the documentary Queen of the Deuce (Exile Films / Storyline Entertainment). He is currently teaching at the Free University in Berlin.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Njeno nago telo i druge čudne priče.
Bojan Babić
Bojan Babić was born in 1977. So far he has written eight books, been awarded the Borislav Pekić Foundation Prize, participated in a few residential programmes for writers abroad, been short-listed for the NIN and some other prizes, had his stories published in English, Swedish, Albanian, Icelandic, German. Late in 2016 the publishing house Glagoslav published his book Girls, Be Good in Nataša Miljković’s translation. He doesn’t let his sentences relax.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Yahoo, Kako se jede nar, Ilegalni Parnas.
Heinrich Boell
Heinrich Boell (1917 – 1985) is one of the most widely read and translated German writers of the second half of the 20th century. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972, as well as many other national and international awards. He published over 30 books of prose, drama and essays.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Sabrano ćutanje doktora Murkea.