Manon Stefan Ros
Photo: Iestyn Hughes
Manon Steffan Ros worked as an actress before becoming a writer. She writes for adults and children and has won the Wales Book of the Year for her adult fiction as well as being four-times winner of the Tir na N’Og Welsh children’s literature award. She has also won Eisteddfod and National Theatre Wales awards for her drama writing. She lives in north Wales with her partner, sons and daughter.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Plava knjiga Neba.
Saša Savanović
Saša Savanović (1986, Novi Sad) writes prose, essays and non-fiction. She has published stories and texts in numerous magazines and anthologies in the country and abroad. Her first novel, Deseti život (Tenth Life), has been shortlisted for the 2018 NIN Award. She is the co-author of several research publications. She works as an independent researcher and program editor.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Novo Sada.
Lisa Samuels
Lisa Samuels is a transnational writer and artist. She’s the author of fourteen books, from The Seven Voices (1998) to Breach (2021), as well as many poetry chapbooks and influential essays on theories of the body, ethics, art and language. Lisa’s performance work, sound art and visual art has exhibited internationally, and she often collaborates with composers and movement artists. US born and having also lived in Europe, the Middle East, and Malaysia, Lisa is now in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Mekana Devojka is the first translation of her novel Tender Girl.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Mekana devojka.
Steve Sem-Sandberg
Steve Sem-Sandberg was born in Oslo, Norway, in 1958. He is one of the most famous and recognized Swedish writers. He works as a literary critic for the leading newspaper Dagens Niheter in Stockholm. His novel The Emperor of Lies (Swedish: De fattiga i Łódź) won the most prestigious Swedish literary award, the August Prize, in 2009 and since then it has been translated into twenty-seven languages. The novel The Chosen Ones (Swedish: De utvalda) has also been successful. It received the Prix Médicis prize in France for the best translated novel in 2016 and the Prix Transfuge prize for the best European novel. His latest novel The Tempest (Swedish: Stormen) was published in 2016. He lives in Stockholm and Vienna.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Izabrani.
Will Self
Will Self has written a number of fiction and non-fiction works, including the novel Umbrella, which was shortlisted for the Booker prize. he lives in London.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: BULezgarije.
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.