Aglaja Veteranyi
Aglaja Veteranyi (1962–2002) was a Swiss writer of Romanian origin, from a family of Romanian and Hungarian descent. She was born in Bucharest but eventually settled in Switzerland with her family of touring circus performers. She is best known for her novel Why the Child Is Cooking in the Polenta. She was the founder of the literary group Die Wortpumpe, and co-founder of the theatrical troupe Die Engelmachine. Her texts were published in numerous magazines and anthologies. In 1998. she was awarded a grant by the Literariche Colloquium Fund from Berlin, and in 2002 she won the Chamisso-Foederpreis prize. In the same year, she ended her life by committing suicide.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Zašto se dete kuva u palenti.
Allan Wilson
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Allan Wilson is working on short stories, novels and plays. He is from Glasgow in Scotland but has been living in the Middle East since 2015. Wasted in Love is his first published work.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Raspadnuti od ljubavi.
Amélie Vrla
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Amélie Vrla is a writer, screenwriter and translator. She was born in Paris, her mother is French and her father is Czech. She lives in Berlin.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Odgovorila je: „Berlin, dušo!”.
Ana Vučković
Ana Vučković (married surname: Denčić) was born in Belgrade on November 16, 1984. She completed her studies of dramatugy and obtained her Master’s degree in filmology at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. She works as a Radio Belgrade 2 journalist and a columnist for City Magazine and the nova.rs portal. She has published five books so far Epoha lipsa juče (An Epoch Croaked Yesterday) (2003), Lust ‘n’ Dust (2004), Plišani soliter (A plush tower block) (2007), Surfing Serbia (2012) and Yugoslav (2019). Her short stories were published in the collections Krik! (The Shriek) and Kraljica Lir i njena deca (Queen Lear and Her Children) (2017). Her poems were published in Volume 33 of the Rukopisi (Manuscripts) anthology of poetry from the former Yugoslavia in 2010. She is the recipient of the Elle Style Award for Literature for the year 2020.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Yugoslav, Yugoslav – English edition, Bazen.
Inga Gaile
Inga Gaile is a Latvian poet and prose writer. She has published eight poetry collections, five novels and one short story collection. Her poetry books have been published in English, Spanish and Polish, while her novels have been translated into Italian, Estonian, Lithuanian, Spanish and Polish. She is the recipient of numerous literary awards and recognitions.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Lepotice.
Marie-Chantale Gariépy
Since she won the prestigious award Joseph S. Stauffer about ten years ago, Marie-Chantale Gariépy has published more than eleven titles and contributed to a number of collections. She was born in Montreal, Quebec, in 1975. However, she finds different imaginary worlds, musicality and serious topics much more important than geography in her novels. Recently, she has quietly warmed to flash fiction. She is also a literary director, former trapeze artist and mother of two.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: 25 centi.
Radu Pavel Gheo
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Radu Pavel Gheo (RADU Pavel Gheorghiţă, born in 1969 in Oraviţa, Romania) is a Romanian writer, essayist and translator. He finished his studies in Timișoara, for years worked as a teacher, a radio host, a journalist for cultural magazines and a translator. He has published twelve books – novels, short-story collections and essays. He has received a number of Romanian awards and his books have been translated into several languages. He currently lives in Timișoara and works as an editor, translator and a columnist.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Disko Titanik.
Mikołaj Grynberg
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Gail Anderson-Dargatz
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GAIL ANDERSON-DARGATZ’s first novel, The Cure for Death by Lightning, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and won the UK’s Betty Trask Award, the BC Book Prize for Fiction and the Vancity Book Prize. Her second novel, A Recipe for Bees, was nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. The Spawning Grounds was nominated for the Sunburst Award and the Ontario Library Association Evergreen Award and short-listed for the Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction. Her thriller, The Almost Wife, hit the Canadian bestseller lists in 2021. She taught for nearly a decade in the MFA program in creative writing at the University of British Columbia and now mentors writers online. Gail Anderson-Dargatz lives in the Shuswap region of British Columbia.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Lek za smrt od udara munje.
Jelena Dedeić
Jelena Dedeić was born in Belgrade in 1975. She graduated from the Department of Serbian Language and Literature with General Linguistics of the Faculty of Philology. She worked as a teacher of the Serbian language in schools, as a lecturer in the editorial offices of the dailies Danas and Biznis, and since 2003 she has also worked as a translator for the Slovenian language. She has translated various business documents, professional textbooks, children’s encyclopedias and scientific publications. She writes short stories at Hilla creative writing workshop. She began her collaboration with Partizanska knjiga with translations of Tomaž Kosmač’s collection of stories Punk is dead, Ana Schnabl’s books Odvezani and Majstorija, and at the beginning of 2022 she published her first novel #evonaprimerja.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: #evonaprimerja.