David Albahari was born in Peć, former Yugoslavia, in 1948. He studied English language and literature in Belgrade. His first volume of short stories was published in 1973. »Opis smrti« was published in 1982, and this volume of short stories won that year’s Ivo Andriç Award. Some of the stories
Charles Simic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1938. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1953, and settled in New York in 1954. Simic published his first poems in 1959. Two years later he was drafted and served the U.S. army. He graduated from New York University in 1966. A
Bora Ćosić was born in Zagreb in 1932. He moved to Belgrade in 1937 and studied philosophy. In the 1950s he worked as an editor and as a translator from Russian. His first novel »Kuca lopova« (1956; tr. The house of thieves), a surrealistic analysis of Yugoslavia – put him
was born in Kotor, Montenegro in 1947. She studied Theatre in Belgrade and influenced the Yugoslavian theatre scene as an avant-garde director and dramatist. In 1994, she founded the Centre for Cultural Decontamination to work against nationalism, intolerance and xenophobia. In addition, Borka Pavićević works as a columnist for several
Biljana Srbljanović was born in 1970 in Belgrade. She graduated at the Belgrade’s Academy of Dramatic Arts, where she now teaches. Her thesis was the play »Beogradska trilogija« (1995, tr: Belgrade Trilogy), which premièred in Belgrade in 1997. At the heart of the three tragicomic scenes are young Serbian émigrés
Ana Ristović was born in 1972 in Belgrade (Serbia), where she studied Serbian Language and Literature and Comparative Literary Studies. She has been publishing poetry since she was 18. She participated in numerous writing competitions and won several prizes, including the Branko-Radičević-Prize for the best Serbian poetry début for »Snovidna
