Gitta Sereny
Gitta Sereny (1921, Vienna, Austria – 2012, Cambridge, United Kingdom) was a journalist and writer of Hungarian-Austrian origin who spent her childhood in Vienna and England and was educated in France as well. She was fluent in three languages: English, German and French. When World War II began, she was studying in Paris, where she volunteered as a nurse in an organization that cared for abandoned children in occupied France. She worked as an interpreter for this organization, which led to significant contact with the German occupying forces. In the last years of the war, she joined the UNRRA organization and worked in displaced persons camps in Germany, where she personally witnessed the consequences of the Nazi regime on its victims.
In 1949, she married Don Honeyman, a photographer for the American magazine Vogue, and settled in London, where she raised a son and a daughter and began her journalistic career.
Her journalistic work was varied, but she mainly focused on topics related to the Third Reich and neglected children. She primarily wrote for the Daily Telegraph Magazine, Sunday Times, The Times, Independent and Independent on Sunday Review. She also published articles in numerous newspapers and magazines around the world.
She is the author of the novel The Medallion and the books The Invisible Children, which deals with prostitution, The Case of Mary Bell and Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth, which examines the Third Reich.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Odlazak u tamu.
Milica Sniva
Milica Sniva was born in Belgrade in 1986. She graduated social policy and social work from the Faculty of Political Sciences. A mother. Writes.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Simptomi.
Website: milicasniva.com
Email: milicasniva@gmail.com
Srđan Srdić
Srđan Srdić was born in Kikinda in 1977. He’s written five novels, two short-story collections and a book of essays. He’s won the following literary awards: Ulaznica (2007), Laza Lazarević (2009), Biljana Jovanović (2012), Edo Budiša (2012), and a scholarship from the Borislav Pekić Fund (2010). Srđan Srdić’s texts and books have been translated into English, German, Ukrainian, Macedonian, Romanian, Slovenian, Albanian and Hungarian. He lives in Mikronaselje, next to Kikinda.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Srebrna magla pada, Satori, Ljubavna pesma, Autosekcija, Sagorevanja.
Dragoljub Stanković
Dragoljub Stanković was born in Jagodina in 1971. He’s a poet, critic, interviewer, columnist, prose writer, editor. He’s written for the portal E-novine, the feuilleton Beton, the newspaper Danas, for a number of literary magazines, and for the Radio Belgrade Third Channel. He’s written three books of poetry: Pesme jednog dana (KOV, 2005), Barka tela (KOV, 2010) and S onu stranu noći (Levo krilo, 2014). He lives in Belgrade.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Beogradski kiklop, Pohvala slabosti.
Daina Tabuna
Daina Tabuna (1985) is a Latvian writer. She graduated from the Latvian Academy of Culture, specializing in theater, film, and TV drama. Since 2000, she has been publishing prose and articles in cultural media. Her short story collection Pirmā reize (The First Time) was shortlisted for the Latvian Literature Annual Award (LaLiGaBa) in 2014 as the best debut of the year. Tabuna’s stories have been published in the United Kingdom by The Emma Press under the title The Secret Box. Her works have been translated into Lithuanian, Slovenian, German, and Chinese. Tabuna has also published a children’s book, Lasis Stasis un Atlantijas okeāns (Salmon Stasis and the Atlantic Ocean), which was shortlisted for the Latvian Literature Award in the “Best Children’s Book” category. In 2023, her debut novel, Raganas (The Witches), was published and nominated for the European Union Prize for Literature as well as the Latvian Literature Annual Award.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Veštice.
Alexander Trocchi
Alexander Trocchi was born in Glasgow in 1925, the son of a Scottish mother and an Italian father. After one year of studying at Glasgow University, he was called up for war service in 1943, and joined the Royal Navy. He returned to complete his degree three years later. Afterwards he travelled in Europe, and settled down in Paris, where he edited Merlin, an avant-garde literary journal. He also started his writing career, producing work for the controversial publisher Olympia Press, including the first version of Young Adam in 1954. His lifelong drug habit began in this period. He then moved to the US, settling first in New York City, where he worked on a scow on the Hudson River, then in California, where the Beat community had relocated. It was during this time that he wrote possibly his most famous novel, Cain’s Book (1961). He moved to London in the 1960s, where he more or less ceased his writing activities and remained until his death in 1984.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Mladi Adam.
Ljiljana D. Ćuk
Ljiljana D. Ćuk was born in Zrenjanin in 1982. She graduated from the Faculty of Philology. She works in digital marketing. Some of her writings have been published. When she isn’t online, she plays music. She lives in Belgrade. Dreams about Berlin.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Neki drugi, Uslovi nisu bitni.
Miroslav Ćurčić
Miroslav Ćurčić was born in Belgrade in 1966. He lives in Zemun.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Smrt u Bašaidu, I šampioni umiru, zar ne, U Klivlendu je sve po starom, Champions Die, Too, Don’t They?, Čovek bez obaveza.
Cecilia Hansson
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Cecilia Hanson is the author of numerous critically acclaimed books. She writes poetry, reports and novels. Some of her more recent titles are Hopplöst, men inte allvarligt – konst och politik i Centraleuropa (Hopeless, But Not Serious – Arts and Politics in Central Europe), Au pair, Snö och potatis (Snow and Potatoes). She grew up in the very north of Sweden, has been living in Stockholm for several years, is a board member of the Swedish PEN and regularly writes for the daily press.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Dadilja.
Johan Harstad
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Johan Harstad, born on 10 February 1979 in Stavanger, is a Norwegian novelist, short story writer, playwright and graphic designer who lives and works in Oslo. He made his literary debut in 2001 at the age of twenty-two with a collection of short prose entitled From Here On You Only Get Older (Herfra blir du bare eldre), and in 2002 he published a short story collection titled Ambulance. His first novel, Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion? (Buzz Aldrin, hvor ble det av deg i alt mylderet?), was published in Norway in 2005 and has been translated into more than ten languages. During the year of 2009 he was engaged as the first playwright in residence at the National Theatre of Norway in its history. He’s won numerous literary prizes and awards.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Nadalje ćeš samo stariti, Hitna pomoć.