Jana Egle
Jana Egle (born in 1963) was born and has spent her entire life in what is probably the harshest part of Latvia – Lower Courland. She holds a master’s degree in preschool pedagogy and worked in a kindergarten for more than 30 years. Since the 1990s, she has been writing poetry, but she only began writing prose after the age of fifty. In the Light (Gaismā) is her first book of prose, for which she received the Latvian Literature Award in 2017.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: U svetlosti.
Vladimir Mirkov Živanović
Vladimir Mirkov Živanović was born in a mine town in East Serbia in 1979. He studied at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade. He holds an MA from the European Institute of Design in Barcelona, where he has lived since 2005. He works as an art director. Slepi putnik is his first book.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Slepi putnik.
Miloš Živanović
Miloš Živanović (1976) is the author of the poetry collections Ignore The Nightmare In The Bathroom (Matica srpska, Novi Sad, 2006), Lirika pasa (The Lyricism of Dogs) (Algoritam, Zagreb, 2009), Na raskršću tužnog đavola (At the Crossroads of the Sad Devil) (KPZ Beton, Belgrade, 2017), the collection of prose Kubernetes – Priče o pilotu (Kubernetes – Stories About the Pilot) (Plima, Ulcinj, 2008), and the novels Razbijanje (Shattering) (Algoritam, Zagreb/Belgrade, 2011) and Duhovi novembra (The Ghosts of November) (Orfelin, Novi Sad, 2021). He worked as an editor for the Cultural Propaganda Kit Beton from 2006 to 2019. He lives in Belgrade.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Obale dobre vode.
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
Photo credit: Kevin Connelly
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
Photo: Guy Buchheit
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.