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.
Igor Cvijanović
Igor Cvijanović (1979, Tuzla) completed his bachelor and master studies of English language and literature at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, and obtained his doctorate from the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade. he has published translations of prose by John Barth, Annie Proulx, Chris Abani, Reif Larsen, Joyce Carol Oates, David Foster Wallace, etc. He received the award for the best translation of the year from the Writers’ Association of Vojvodina in 2012. He lives in Novi Sad.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Nik Kejv i poetika prestupa.
Shieh Zifan
A passionate yet impartial observer. A wanderer at heart and across the world.
Born in Hsinchu, Taiwan, she has lived in several cities and currently spends her days in Taipei. She has worked in advertising, developed marketing strategies, and occasionally worked as a translator; she is now engaged in literary writing.
She is the recipient of the Taipei Literature Award and the China Times Literary Award, and her works have been selected multiple times for the annual anthology of contemporary Taiwanese literature, Nine Poems. Her essay collection Me and the Garbage Truck I Try to Catch was shortlisted for Taiwan’s Golden Literary Award.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Ja i đubretarski kamion koji pokušavam da stignem.
Predrag Čudić
Rođen sam 1943. 4. avgusta u Risanskoj br. 4, u Berzi rada, u nastojničkom stanu, nedaleko od Palate pravde koja je u mom književnom životu takođe bila bitna adresa i simbol, kako pravde tako i nepravde. Moj otac je govorio da sam projektovan u Zagrebu, a realizovan u Beogradu. Zvali su me Berzino dete. Inače, za mlade generacije: Berza rada za vreme rata slala je gastarbajtere u Nemačku, isto kao i godinama potom, samo pod malo drugačijim okolnostima. Dakle, to nije nikakav Brozov i Brantov patent. Započeo sam gimnaziju „Stevan Sremac“ u Senti, odmah pored rodne kuće Stevana Sremca, a završio istu pod imenom, iznenada blagopočivšeg na državnim poslovima, Moše Pijade. Diplomirao sam Opštu književnost sa teorijom književnosti na Filološkom u suton šezdesetosmaških, lipanjskih gibanja. Lutao trbuhom za kruhom od nemila do nedraga, od honorarca na dečjem radio programu do ambasadora. Najveći deo beskrajnog radnog veka proveo u Biblioteci grada Beograda, video svojim očima desetine hiljada nepotrebnih knjiga. Nažalost, nisam kao kolega bibliotekar, slabovidi Borhes, stvorio maestralnu sublimaciju svega viđenog. Naprotiv, dodao sam tom beskrajnom broju petnaestak knjiga poezije, proze, poezije za decu. Preživeo u dva maha sudar sa Pravdom zbog verbalnog delikta. Još uvek, na sreću, živim u blizini Palate, ali na pristojnoj distanci. Živim i čekam verujući u njenu pravednu sporost, jer kažu da rukopisi ne gore. Ali, ko zna, ovo je Savamala, a ja se još, ponekad, osećam kao Berzino dete.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Malograđanski ep/Matr’jalisti, Iz zemlje nemanjića.
Maurice Gee
Maurice Gee has written more than thirty novels for adults and children and he’s also written for film and television. He has won a lot of awards in his homeland, New Zealand, and for his most famous novel Plumb he was awarded the James Tate Black Memorial Prize in the United Kingdom. He lives with his wife Margaret in the city of Nelson in the New Zealand South Island. He’s got two daughters and a son.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Gubitnici i druge priče.
Radivoj Šajtinac
Radivoj Šajtinac was born in Zrenjanin in 1949. He writes poetry, prose, literary and art criticism, works in dramaturgy and translates from Russian and English, and has published more than thirty books. He was one of the founders of the magazine Ulaznica, where he spent two decades as an editor. Radivoj Šajtinac’s books and texts have been translated into fifteen European languages. He is the recipient of numerous literary awards.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Pompeja.
Uglješa Šajtinac
A writer and playwright for children and adults. He has written several novels and short-story collections. His plays have been performed and published in Serbia and abroad. His works have won several prizes and been translated into Polish, Bulgarian, English, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Slovene and Macedonian.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Vok on!.
Faruk Šehić
Faruk Šehić was born in Bihać (SFRY) in 1970. He’s written the following books: Pjesme u nastajanju (2000), Hit depo (2003), Pod pritiskom (2004), Transsarajevo (2006), Hit depo, Pod pritiskom, Transsarajevo, Apokalipsa iz Recycle bina (2007), Knjiga o Uni (2011) and Moje rijeke (2014). Literary critics often call him the leader of the “run-over generation.” His books Hit depo and Pod pritiskom enjoy the cult status among his readers. For the novel Knjiga o Uni he was awarded the Meša Selimović for the best novel published in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro in 2011, and the European Union Prize for Literature – EUPL in 2013. For the book of poetry Moje rijeke he won the Risto Ratković Award for the best published book of poetry in Ser Risto Ratković bia, B&H, Croatia and Montenegro for the years 2013/2014. His books have been translated into Macedonian, Bulgarian, German, English and French. He works as a journalist and columnist for the Sarajevo magazine BH Dani. He lives in Sarajevo.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Moje rijeke.
Ana Schnabl
Photo credit: Matej Pušnik
Ana Šnabl (1985) is a writer and journalist. She writes for various Slovenian media outlets and the British Guardian. Her short-story collection Unbound (Odvezani, Beletrina 2017; Partizanska knjiga 2018) received the award for the best debut book at the Slovenian Book Fair, followed by two more nominations and the Edo Budiša Award in Croatia. Three years later, her debut novel Masterpiece (Majstorija, Beletrina 2020; Partizanska knjiga 2022) was published, earning acclaim from both domestic and international readers and making it onto the longlist for the Dublin Literary Award. Her second novel, The Tide (Plima, Beletrina 2022; Partizanska knjiga 2024), was nominated for the Kresnik Award. In August 2024, her novel September (Septembar), her fourth work, was released.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Odvezani, Majstorija, Plima.