Danka Ivanović
Danka Ivanović (born in Cetinje, 1988) completed her undergraduate and master’s studies in French language and literature at the University of Belgrade and the University of Leuven. She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in literature at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade.
She translates from French, and her reviews and poetry have been published in the journals Polja, Ulaznica, Beogradski književni časopis, Književna istorija, on internet portals, and in the poetry collection Tajni grad (Enklava, 2021).
Prazne kuće (Empty Houses) is her first novel.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Prazne kuće.
Miloš K. Ilić
Miloš K. Ilić (1987-2051) writes prose and radio dramas. He has published a short-story collection, Priče o pivu (2008).
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Umorni kao psi.
Sharon English
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Sharon English is a Canadian writer whose work emerges from a deep interest in how places and placelessness shape us. She’s the author of the story collections Uncomfortably Numb and Zero Gravity, which was long-listed for the Giller Prize, among other recognitions. Her first novel, Night in the World, is forthcoming from Freehand Books in 2022. Sharon’s essays have also appeared in the journals Canadian Notes and Queries and Dark Matter, and as part of the Dark Mountain Project in the UK. She lives in Toronto.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Nulta gravitacija.
Željko Janković
Željko Janković was born in Pančevo in 1983. He published a poetry book titled “Karl Ginter in Double Exposure” in 2010 (Branko’s Award, Aladin Lukač Award). He has published his works in numerous printed and online magazines, including Nova misao, Kvartal, Hyperborea, Agon, Ulaznica, Severni bunker, Sent, Zlatna greda, etc. He currently resides in Pančevo.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Sumrak na petlji, Noću ne polaze lososi.
Pascal Janovjak
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Pascal Janovjak is a Franco-Swiss writer born in Basel in 1975 to a French mother and a Slovak father. Before going to Jordan and later to Lebanon, where he taught French at the University of Tripoli, he studied literature and art history in Strasbourg. From 2002 to 2005, he headed the French Alliance in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He then settled in Palestinian Ramallah, where he taught literature. In 2011, his path led him to Italy, where, after winning a scholarship for a writer’s residency at the Swiss Institute in Rome, he lives to this day. His work has been translated into multiple languages. His book Le Zoo de Rome (published by Actes Sud in 2019) was awarded the Swiss literary prize, the Michel-Dentan Prize, and the RTS audience award.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Rimski zoološki vrt.
Nemanja Jovanović
Nemanja Jovanović was born in Čačak in 1974. He does illustrations and graphic design. Among other things, he worked as a technical editor in the publishing house Veseli četvrtak for four years. His short stories have been published in Student, Yellow Cab, Severni bunker, Ulaznica. Milka zbogom, vidimo se sutra is his first novel. Nemanja Jovanović has created the logo of Partizanska knjiga.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Milka zbogom, vidimo se sutra, Rudi.
Irena Jordanova
Irena Jordanova is a writer born in Skopje. She completed her studies at the Blaže KoneskiFaculty of Philology, at the Department of General and Comparative Literature. She began publishing stories during her student days, and her first novel, In Between, was a finalist for the “Novel of the Year” award by Utrinski vesnik in 2008. Her second novel, Catalyst 33, was translated into English and in 2012 was among the best-selling novels on Amazon. Her stories have been published in Macedonian anthologies and translated into several world languages. Poslušni brod is her third novel.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Između.
Paul Ewen
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Paul Ewen was born and raised in New Zealand, and now lives in London. Francis Plug: How To Be A Public Author, was a Book of the Year in the Guardian, New Statesman, Irish Times, Big Issue, New Zealand Listener, and Australia’s New Daily. It has been published in the UK, Australia and Germany. The Sunday Times described it as: ‘Inspired. A brilliant, deranged new comic creation’, and the New Statesman called it ‘a modern comic masterpiece.’
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Fransis Čep: Kako da pisac nastupa u javnosti.
Barry Callaghan
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Barry Callaghan, born in 1937, is a famous Canadian novelist, poet and short story writer. He’s included in all leading anthologies of Canadian literature. His works have been translated into numerous languages. He’s published selections of French, Serbian and Latvian poetry. During 1970s he was a war correspondent from the Middle East and Africa. In the middle of the same decade he founded the Exile magazine, which is still published. He’s won a number of awards. He works as a professor emeritus at the University of York in Toronto.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Svi ti usamljeni ljudi.
Bojana Karavidić
Bojana Karavidić (1954), a journalist (Faculty of Political Sciences, Belgrade), has worked with Radio Yugoslavia, Radio Novi Sad, and Radio Belgrade and has occasionally written for NIN and other newspapers and magazines. She founded the Suburbium Citizens’ Association, dedicated to the cultural and historical heritage in a borderless region, as well as Korzo Portal for urban culture and heritage. In 2018, she won the first prize in the Ulaznica literary contest for her story. That was the beginning of what followed… You might find her in Gradić, the Petrovaradin Fortress’s Podgrađe, strolling with her mixed-breed dog, Hector.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Očekujući odgovor.