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.
Ibrahim Hadžić
He was born in Rožaje (Montenegro) in 1944. He graduated in art history from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. He has been writing poetry for over 50 years. He has published 16 books of poems, 5 of prose and other works, and 10 books about mushrooms. He translates poetry from the Russian language. He is the recipient of several significant literary awards. For 20 years, he was an editor at the School Editorial Office of TV Belgrade. In difficult times, under the pressure of “political commissars,” he had to resign and leave the Television. He is one of the founders of the Mycological Society of Serbia and one of the initiators and editors of the magazine Svet gljiva (The World of Mushrooms). Ibrahim Hadžić belonged to, and still belongs to, the independent circle of intellectuals. He lives in Belgrade.
Guy Helminger
Guy Helminger was born in 1963 in the Luxembourg town of Esch-sur-Alzette, and has lived in Cologne since 1985. He writes poems, novels, radio dramas, theater plays. For his work, he has received several literary awards such as the Servais Prize, the 3sat Literary Award, the Dresden Lyric Award, the Meran Lyric Award and the Gustav Regler Award.
Some of the titles: Die schwere Naht der Flüsse. Aufzeichnungen und Fotos aus Brasilien (Heavy Night of the Rivers, records and photos from Brazil), 2022; Lärm (Noise), novel 2021; Die Lombardi-Affäre (The Lombardi Affair), novel, 2020; Die Lehmbauten des Lichts (Clay Buildings of Light), Records and Photos from Yemen, 2019; Jockey, theater piece, 2019; Die Tagebücher der Tannen (Fir Diaries), poems, 2018.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Rđa.
Rhys Hughes
Rhys Hughes was born in Wales but has lived in many different countries and currently resides in India. He began writing fiction at an early age and his first book, Worming the Harpy, was published in 1995. Since that time he has published more than forty other books. He recently completed an ambitious project that involved writing exactly 1000 linked narratives. He is currently working on a collection of crime fiction stories called The Reconstruction Club and a novel about a deluded student called The Hippy Quixote. He also writes poems and plays.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Postmoderni mornar.
Peter Hobbs
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Peter Hobbs was born in 1973, and lives in London. He is the author of two novels, The Short Day Dying and In The Orchard, The Swallows, and co-editor of an anthology of short stories, Sex and Death. His work has won a Betty Trask Award, and been shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the John Lewellyn Rhys Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Award.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Čitavog dana bih se vozikao u svom strava plavom vozu.
Caryl Phillips
Caryl Phillips (1958, St Kitts) moved to England when he was four months old. He grew up in Leeds, and graduated from the Department of English Language and Literature, Oxford University. The beginning of his literary career was marked by the plays Strange Fruit (1980), Where There is Darkness (1982) and The Shelter (1983). He has written a number of dramas, documentaries for the radio and television and the screenplays Playing Away (1986) and The Mystic Masseur (2001), based on the novel of the same title by V. S. Naipaul. He has written the following novels: The Final Passage (1985), A State of Independence (1986), Higher Ground (1989), Cambridge (1991), Crossing the River (1993), The Nature of Blood (1997), A Distant Shore (2003), Dancing in the Dark (2005), Foreigners (2007), In the Falling Snow (2009), The Lost Child (2015) and A View of the Empire at Sunset (2018), and the collections of essays The European Tribe (1987), The Atlantic Sound (2000), A New World Order (2001) and Colour Me English (2011). He edited the anthologies Extravagant Strangers: A Literature of Belonging (1997) and The Right Set: An Anthology of Writing on Tennis (1999). His works have been translated into more than ten languages. He is the recipient of numerous awards for plays and novels, most importantly James Tait Black Memorial Prize for the novel Crossing the River, which was also short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1993. The novel A Distant Shore, nominated for the Booker prize and PEN/Faulkner Award in 2003, won the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 2004. he is a member of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts, as well as Honorary Fellow of The Queen’s College, Oxford. He has taught at universities in Ghana, Sweden, Singapore, Barbados, India and the USA, where he currently works at Yale University.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Daleka obala.