Marija Knežević

Marija Knežević (born 29 December 1963) is a Serbian poet, fiction writer, essayist, literary translator and Professor of literature.

Marija Knežević
Born(1963-12-29)29 December 1963
Belgrade, Yugoslavia
OccupationPoet, essayist, professor
NationalitySerbian
Notable awardsThe Đura Jakšič Award

Knežević was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1963.[1] She graduated from Belgrade University with a degree in Comparative Literature and Theory of Literature.[1] She later completed her M.A. degree at Michigan State University where she also taught from 1996 to 2000. She wrote a column for the Politika newspaper.[2]

Selected bibliography

Poetry

Her poetry includes:[1]

  • Elegiac Advice to Julia, BIGZ; Belgrade. (1994)
  • Things for Personal Use, Prosveta; Belgrade. (1994)
  • The Age of Salome, Prosveta; Belgrade. (1996)
  • My Other You, Vajat; Belgrade. (2001)

Prose

Her collection of proses include:[1]

  • Dog Food, novel published by Matica srpska, Novi Sad (1989)
  • Querida, e-mail correspondence with Anika Krstić from Belgrade during bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999. Vajat; Belgrade (2001)
  • The Book of Longing, Slobodna izdanja Slobodana Mašića; Belgrade. (2003)
  • Das Buch vom Fehlen, bilingual, Serbian and German edition; Wieser Verlag, translation into German: Goran Novaković, Vienna. (2004)[3]
  • Ekaterini, (2005). Translation into English: Will Firth, Istros Books, London; England. (2013)[4]
  • Fabula rasa, the work on the book financed by Austrian "KulturKontakt", the author's edition; Belgrade. (2008)
  • Auto, Agora; Zrenjanin. (2017)

Awards
  • The Đura Jakšič Award, 2007, for the poetry collection In tactum
  • The story “Without Fear of Change” (from Fabula rasa) is included in the "Best European Fiction" edition for 2012 (Dalkey Archive Press, Illinois, US).[5]

References
  1. Forrester, Sibelan. "Marija Kneževic". poetryinternational.org. Poetry International.
  2. Šarić, Ljiljana; Stanojević, Mateusz-Milan, eds. (2019). Metaphor, Nation and Discourse. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISBN 9789027262677.
  3. wieser-verla prevod/The Book on Longing
  4. "Ekaterini". istrobooks.com.
  5. Hemon, Aleksandar (2011). Best European Fiction 2012 (Best European Fiction). Dalkey Archive Press. p. 45. ISBN 978-1-56478-680-7.
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