Senka Marić
Senka Marić writes poetry, prose and essays. She has published three poetry collections and the novel Kintsugi tijela. She is a recipient of a few literary awards, including the European award Vitez/škinja poezije (2013), the Zija Dizdarević award (2000), and the Meša Selimović award (2019) for the best novel published in 2018 in the countries of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro. She is editor-in-chief of the Internet portal for literature, culture and art strane.ba.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Gravitacije.
Andrija Matić
Andrija Matić (1978) was born in Kragujevac. He holds a PhD in English literature from the Faculty of Philology, the University of Belgrade. He has published the novels Burnout (2015), Pomračenje u pet slika (2013), Šaht (2009) and Nestanak Zdenka Kuprešanina (2006), the short-story collection Muzej savremene umetnosti (2010) and the study T. S. Eliot: pesnik, kritičar, dramski pisac (2007). He lives in the south of Thailand.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Istanbulski mozaik.
Kerstin Medinger
Kerstin Medinger is a Luxembourgish novelist born in 1984. Since 2001, she has undertaken numerous initiatory and cultural journeys across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Writing has accompanied her throughout these successive travels. After studying Hispanic literatures and modern literature at the Sorbonne, she first worked in publishing and then in the field of copyright in Paris. In 2013, she returned to her native country to pursue a career in communication and public relations. In 2017, she left her position as a manager at Radio 100,7 to become a teacher of French and Spanish.
Her first novel, Le Départ, was published by Phi in 2022. Le Secret de Tadi is the sequel to Le Départ.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Odlazak.
Miljan Milanović
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Produžetak vrste, Divlje rastinje, Prolongation of the Species.
Tijana Milenković
Tijana Milenković was born on December 23, 1995, in Belgrade. She completed her primary and secondary education in Požarevac. She graduated from the Department of Film and Television Directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts for two years. She currently lives in Belgrade, where she makes a living, paints, and writes.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Brm, brm.
Stevica Šepra Mihajlov
Born in 1969 in Zrenjanin.
Author of the collection of fragmentary stories The Stooges and Breaded Zucchini, published in 2023 by the Niš Cultural Centre.
Winner of the “Stevan Sremac – Ball in Elemir” award for a humorous-satirical story in 2022.
His work has been published in Belgrade Literary Journal, Gradina, Dometi, Ulaznica, and Buktinja.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: U 3:10 za Kovin.
Nikola Mladenović
Nikola Mladenović (Johnny Mauna) was born in Novi Sad in 1986 and lived in Sombor for the first two years. His mother and brother were born in Niš, and his father on Jastrebac. He grew up in New Belgrade’s Block 22. From 2008 to 2012, he was involved in contemporary dance. In the following years, he continued exploring movement through free dance and contact improvisation. He has been writing since 2018, and since the end of 2021, he has been organizing poetry evenings called Ponekad u osam (Sometimes at Eight). His poetic expression is rounded out in the poetry book Jasni izbori (Clear Choices).
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Jasni izbori.
Dragana Mokan
Dragana Mokan was born in Zrenjanin in 1981. She lives and works in Belgrade. She’s written the book of poetry Kako mi je prošlo vreme (2003). She’s won the awards Ulaznica, Pčesa, Evenstar Festival of Fantasy and was a finalist in the poetry and short story competitions Alma (Belgrade) and Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (Rome). Her poetry has been published in literary magazines and on portals: Savremenik (Belgrade), Afirmator (Belgrade), Most (Sarajevo), Sveske (Pančevo), Sykoli (Budapest), Orbis (Kanjiža), Natron (Zrenjanin), Latica (Podgorica).
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Pustite im laganu muziku, 33 sna.
Danny Morrison
Photo credit: Bobbie Hanvey
Danny Morrison is a former Sinn Féin publicity director, and he also acted as spokesman for the IRA hunger strikers’ leader Bobby Sands in 1981. He has been imprisoned several times and charged for his IRA membership. While he was serving his eight-year sentence, he started to write his third novel, The Wrong Man.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Pogrešan čovek.
Elvira Navarro
Photo credit: Rubén Bastida
Elvira Navarro (1978) studied philosophy. She has published the series The City in Winter and The Happy, the novel A Working Woman (translated by Christina MacSweeney) and the novella Los últimos días de Adelaida García Morales (The Last Days of Adelaida García Morales). In Spain her work has been awarded the Premio Jaén de Novela, the Premio Andalucía de la Crítica and the Premio Tormenta for best new author. The short story collection Rabbit Island (also translated by Christina MacSweeney) is her latest publication. In 2010 she was included in Granta’s ‘Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists’ and in 2014 El Cultural chose La trabajadora (A Working Woman) among its ten best novels of the year. In 2019 the cultural supplement Babelia named La isla de los conejos (Rabbit Island) as one of the ten best books of that year. She worked as an editor for the Madrid publishing house Caballo de Troya in 2015. In addition to English, her work has been translated into French, Swedish, Italian and Turkish.
Published by Partizanska knjiga: Zečje ostrvo.