John Banville
Photo credit: Douglas Banville
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. His works of fiction and nonfiction include Snow, The Book of Evidence, The Sea, which won the 2005 Man Booker Prize, and the Quirke series of crime novels under the pen name Benjamin Black. Other major prizes he has won include the Franz Kafka Prize, the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Irish Literature, and the Prince of Asturias Award. He lives in Dublin.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Duhovi, Singularnosti.
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.
Alan Bissett
Alan Bissett is a playwright, novelist and performer from Falkirk in Scotland. He is the author of four novels: Boyracers (2001), The Incredible Adam Spark (2005), Death of a Ladies’ Man (2009) and Pack Men (2011), the latter two of which were shortlisted for Scottish Arts Council Fiction of the Year prize. His most well-known works for the stage are The Moira Trilogy of plays (2009-2022), which he performs himself, and were shortlisted for Best New Play at the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland, as was his 2010 play Turbo Folk. He has also presented the television documentary Inside the Mind of Robert Burns for BBC Scotland, and his most recent work of non-fiction, Lads (2023) was the winner of the School Librarians Association Information Book of the Year.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Javašna Suzan.
Ivana Bulatović
Ivana Bulatović graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in 1999. Her short-story collection Ruska i druge priče was published by Nolit in 2009. Her stories have been published in the literary magazines Koraci, Polja, Sarajevske sveske, Gradina. She lives in Belgrade.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Praćerka.
Vladimir Bulatović
Vladimir Bulatović was born in Belgrade in 1979. He has published two short-story collections: Duhovi satire (Presing, 2013) and Elvira je sanjala (Književna Radionica Rašić, 2015). He works as a solo singing teacher at a music school.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Kaplarovo igralište, Grandž.
Behrouz Boochani
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Behrouz Boochani (born 23 July 1983 in Ilam, Iran) is a Kurdish-Iranian journalist, writer, film producer, human rights and refugee advocate. With a master’s degree in political science, political geography and geopolitics, he co-founded, edited and wrote for the magazine Werya (Kurdish for “wise”, “informed”, “clever”), which attracted the attention of Iranian authorities because of its promotion of the Kurdish language, culture and politics. After the offices were raided by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and some of his colleagues were arrested in February 2013, Boochani left Iran and made his way to Indonesia. In the course of four months he made two attempts to cross from Indonesia to Australia in a boat. The first attempt ended in shipwreck and the second in his exile to Manus Island, a small province in Papua New Guinea, where the Australian government as part of the Pacific Solution had set up an offshore processing centre. Boochani remained detained on Manus from August 2013 to November 2019, when he was granted a one-month visa to speak at a literary festival in New Zealand. The following year, the New Zealand Government granted refugee status to Boochani, allowing him to stay in New Zealand indefinitely and to apply for residency. He publishes regularly for The Guardian, and his writing also features in The Saturday Paper, Huffington Post, New Matilda, The Financial Times and The Sydney Morning Herald. He won an Amnesty International Australia 2017 Media Award for his reporting from Manus as well as the Anna Politkovskaya Award for journalism. Boochani co-directed (with Arash Kamali Sarvestani) the 2017 feature-length film Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time, and collaborated on Nazanin Sahamizadeh’s play Manus. Boochani also writes poetry and publishes it on the Internet. His book No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison won the 2019 Victorian Prize for Literature and the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Nonfiction. He has also won the Special Award at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, the Australian Book Industry Award for Nonfiction Book of the Year, and the National Biography Prize.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Nema prijatelja osim planina.
Uroš Bojanović
Uroš Bojanović was born in Teslić, BH, in 1991. He has published two books of poetry: Ja ne mogu ništa (2007) and Iz druge sobe (2011). He has also had his poems published in literary magazines: Polja, Tema, Zarez, Agon, Knjigomat, Kritična masa, Afirmator, BKG, Ars, Libartes i Strane. His poems are included in the anthology Meko tkivo: izbor iz nove poezije regiona. He lives and works in Teslić.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Sam u vodi.
Stefan Bošković
Stefan Bošković was born in Podgorica on 15th February 1983. In 2010 he graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Cetinje. He has published the novel Šamaranje which won The Prize for the Best Unpublished Novel. His short stories and dramas have been published in several magazines and anthologies. His stories have been translated into English, Russian and Slovenian. Co-screenwriter of the feature film Ispod mosta, na travi, među stijenama, 2016. Screenwriter of the short live action film Umir krvi directed by Senad Šahmanović, 2014. Screenwriter of the documentary films Dado Đurić, 2012. Žive oči, 2014. Vice Verse, 2015. Performed dramatic texts U ljubavnom trouglu, Komad i Galeb.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Transparentne životinje.
Dimitrije Bukvić
Dimitrije Bukvić (Belgrade, 1985) is a sociologist and journalist. He has published short stories in anthologies and literary magazines in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Croatia. He is the winner of the festival for young writers Srpsko pero, the short story competition of the Bor National Library and the Miodrag Borisavljević competition. He is the author of the books Kafanološki astal / Karirani stolnjak (co-authored with Prof. Dr. Dragoljub B. Đorđević, 2014) and Šezdeset osma – pedeset godina posle (2018). He is a member of the advisory team of the international project CoLaboArthon, which combines science and art by creating engaged collective literary works. He has published sociological papers in scientific journals in Serbia and Montenegro. He is the author of numerous reports and series in the daily Politika, and for the Balkan Research Network (BIRN) he has written about cultural policy issues in the region. Fun fact: part of his newspaper article about the writer Jelena J. Dimitrijević was included in a seventh grade reader.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Svaka dobija.
Dušan Vasiljev
Dušan Vasiljev, one of the greatest Serbian expressionists, was born on 19th July 1900 in Great Kikinda. In 1918 he fought in the Italian front. He returned from the war with his health seriously impaired. Dušan Vasiljev’s poems were published in a number of prestigious magazines and anthologies. In his lifetime, Vasiljev wrote about three hundred poems, a few dramatic texts and short stories, and he also started writing a novel. His first book, selected poems, was published posthumously. He died in Kikinda on 27th March 1924.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Pesme, Proza i drame.