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.
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.
Maarja Kangro
Maarja Kangro (1973) was born in Tallinn where she currently lives. She is doubtlessly one of the most outstanding voices of Estonian contemporary authors: wry, ironic, incisive. She has published 14 books of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, authoring also eight opera librettos and five books for children. She has won numerous literary awards, and in 2018, she published a non-fiction book titled “My Awards”, partly a study of cultural awards and prestige, partly a memoir, dedicated to her colleagues. Her works have been translated into 20 languages, and she is herself a translator, translating mainly from Italian and German.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Dete od stakla.
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.
Zvonko Karanović
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Zvonko Karanović (1959, Niš) is a poet with a distinctly urban sensibility. His works refer to the literature of the Beat Generation, film and pop culture. In his latest books, he experimented with the techniques of surrealism and the form of poetry in prose. He has won several Serbian literary awards for poetry and international scholarships for writers, such as the Heinrich Böll Foundation Scholarship, Cologne, Germany, 2011. His poems have been translated into more than twenty languages.
Poetry collections: Blitzkrieg (1990); Srebrni Surfer (1991); Mama melanholija (1996); Extravaganza (1997); Tamna magistrala (2001); Svlačenje (2004); Mesečari na izletu (2012); Kavezi (2013); Zlatno doba (2015); Iza zapaljene šume (2018).
Novels: Više od nule (2004); Četiri zida i grad (2006); Tri slike pobede (2009).
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Srebrni surfer, The Cages.
Tijana Katić
Born on 2nd March 1997 in Kragujevac. Lived in Velika Plana until going to university. Graduated from the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade, specializing in statistics, informatics and quantitative finance.
Participated in the implementation of projects for students as a marketing associate and moderator in panel discussions in the field of economics. Attended workshops on creative writing. Has been writing fiction for over ten years. Areas of interest: literature, economics, psychology.
Her short story “Optical Illusion of Sight” was published in a Službeni glasnik collection as one of the top 15 entries in the competition for the best short story of 2020. Winner of the Đura Đukanov Award for the collection of stories Hod po ivici kruga (Walking on the Edge of the Circle).
She lives, works and creates in Belgrade.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Hod po ivici kruga.
Jasna Kinđić
Jasna Kinđić was born in 1975 in Gornji Milanovac, Serbia. Multimedia artist, founder of the Kabare Nebula improv ensemble, with which she performs her poetry. She has published poems in magazines and on portals.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Oratorijum za pticu.