Tomaž Kosmač
Tomaž Kosmač was born on 30 November 1965 in Godovič, the Municipality of Idrija, Slovenia. He has published 3 short-story collections and 4 novels. His short stories have been included in anthologies of Slovene short prose. The book Punk is Dead was published in Macedonian translation by the publishing house Goten from Skopje in 2018. A short film titled The Weekend Package, shot for RTV Slovenia, directed by Boris Palčić (screenplay by Gorazd Trušnovec), is based on Kosmač’s short story Zapor (The Prison). Kosmač is member of the Slovene Writers’ Association.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Punk is dead.
Marinko Koščec
Born in Zagreb in 1967. As if out of spite to other possibilities, if not in order to prove the lack of intelligence, he returns there from any journey. In 2000 he gave up for good playing chess professionally, football, rock music and fishing, and was employed as a teacher of French literature at the Faculty of Philosophy. In 2002 he won the Meša Selimović prize for the novel Netko drugi; he was a bit disappointed when it was awarded to someone else the following year. In 2003 he won half the VBZ prize for Wonderland; he seemed to take this even more badly as he was no longer awarded any prizes. Not knowing any better, he still writes novels. Sami is his eight.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Sami.
Andrew Crumey
Andrew Crumey studied theoretical physics before publishing his first novel in 1993. It won the Saltire Award and established him as a uniquely original voice in Scottish writing. He won the prestigious Northern Rock Foundation Writer’s Award in 2006 for his sixth novel, Sputnik Caledonia. He was literary editor of the newspaper Scotland on Sunday for several years, and now lectures in creative writing at Northumbria University in north-east England.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Tajno znanje.
Augustin Cupşa
Augustin Cupşa was born in 1980. He studies psychiatry in Bucharest. His debut novel was published in 2006, when he also started writing screenplays, for which he has been awarded. He is most famous for his short stories, some of which have been translated into several languages and published in a few anthologies. The book Marile bucurii şi marile tristeţi was nominated for the best book of the year in Romania in 2014.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Velike radosti i velike tuge.
Claude Lalumière
Claude Lalumière was born in Montreal, Canada. He’s written four books and more than a hundred stories. His works have been adapted for theatre, television and comics. His prose has been translated into French, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Russian and Serbian.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Nokturni.
Arian Leka
Arian Leka (poet, prose writer and professor) belongs to a group of authors who became prominent after Albania opened up as a country and are considered the avant-garde. He has written sixteen books of prose and poetry and won six national literary awards, four out of which are for the best book of the year. His works have been translated into major European languages and are included in several recognized anthologies. He is the founder of a residential stay programme for writers in Tirana called Poeteka and a literary magazine with the same name. He is member of the European Council for Dramaturgy in Paris and the Poets’ Academy in London. He holds a PhD in literary theory and works as a lecturer at the University of Tirana.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Muževljeva leđa.
Predrag Ličina
Photo credit: Ivan Zadro
Predrag Ličina (Zagreb, 1972) is a fan of science fiction and horror. His favourite film is Alien, superhero Spiderman, and book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. He spends a lot of time listening to music and watching football. His favourite band is The Cramps, singer Nick Cave, and football club Liverpool. In his free time he directs films and writes stories. He directed and wrote the screenplay for the short film Teleport Zovko and feature-length film The Last Serb in Croatia.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Bljuzga u praskozorje.
Refik Ličina
Refik Ličina was born in Radmanci, Montenegro, in 1956, but since 1994 he has lived in Lund, Sweden. He writes poetry, prose and translates from Swedish. He has published the following poetry collections: Poznavanje prirode (1970), Pčele (1983), Prigodne prisile (2009), Knjigovezačka ulica (2009) and a few short-story collections: Staklenici (2004), Strah od behara (2013), Ulični budilnici (2017), Dalge (2018.). He published selected poetry in Swedish: Predikan för Eurydike (2009) and novellas När nyponrosor mognar (2013). Translations: Prisluškivanja, Bengta Emila Johnsona, 2010 (the prize for the best translation at Sarajevo International Book Fair in 2011), Antologija moderne švedske poezije, OKF, Cetinje and Izabrane pjesme Magnusa Wiliam-Olssona (2014), Put u središte zemlje i druge pjesme, Larsa Gustafssona, 2016, Izabrane pjesme Tomasa Tranströmera, 2018. He won the Goran Prize (1979) and the Branko Prize (1980), and the Klas De Vildes scholarship for the year 2016.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Ribe u bunaru.
Fatos Lubonja
Writer, journalist, artist, chief editor of the quarterly review Përpjekja (Endeavour), – an endeavour to introduce the critical spirit in the Albanian culture. Born in 1951. In 1974, finished his studies for physics. In the same year was imprisoned after police found his hiden writings. In 1979, was sentenced to a further 16 years. Was released from prison in 1991 after 17 years. Author of several books, numerous articles and essays and stories published in Albania and abroad. He has been awarded numerous prizes, including Premio Alberto Moravia: for the international literature, “Fondo Moravia” Roma, Italy (2002), Herder Price for literature, Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S. Hamburg (2004), Prince Clause award for Literature and journalism, Prince Clause Foundation, The Netherland (2015).
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Ponovo osuđen.
Julien Maret
Julien Maret was born in Switzerland in 1978. He has written the novel Rengaine (2011) and Ameublement (2014), published by José Corti publishing house. He currently lives in Geneva.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Sve po starom.