The latest news about Maja Herman Sekulić is that, by the decision of the jury of the International Academy of Ethics based in India, this writer has been nominated for the Nobel Prize
Her biography, bibliography and international recognition thoroughly support this decision. Doctorate from Princeton, title of literary theorist, poet, writer, essayist, translator, travel writer, author of books about Tesla, Joyce and the digital revolution (her works are used as textbooks both in the USA and here), author of unique portraits of Nobel laureates, writers... how to sum up all this in one word and determine her vocation?
Actually, just her name is enough. It is difficult to find a similar opus, but Maja Herman Sekulić shows a special closeness with one author in the book Sketches for portraits, in which he talks to sixteen great writers, and pays special attention to the work of his acquaintance, the American literary icon Susan Sontag. They share an astonishing range of knowledge from history and geopolitics, through philosophy, to art history...
The search for her works leads to world anthologies, 30 books of poetry and prose translated into 27 languages. She is the only writer of ours who was published during her lifetime with Selected Works ("Textbook Institute" and "Official Gazette"), she is crowned with awards, praises and honors that are difficult to enumerate in the world. She is one of the "50 unforgettable women of Europe" and the winner of the "Nelson Mandela" international peace award, which was recently awarded to her in Rome at the Pontifical University. This author, every chance is, tries to capture the elusive with her rich opus: the spirit of the times.
Maja Herman Sekulić's latest book, the last, sixth volume published in 2024 as part of Selected Works, Looking for Lolita or missing pictures, is perhaps the most complex, multidimensional work of this author in terms of genre, which strongly resists classical definitions, but, in the words of her editors and critics, is above all "a great novel of Serbian literature". That work simultaneously brings back to us the excitement that comes from academic classrooms and the memory of the poetic practices that formed us, we meet Nabokov and Kubrick in it, and the descriptions of her personal New York are among the most beautiful tributes to that city, which itself becomes a character of this fiction. The autobiographical moments of her stay in "Lolitaland", where the sweet birds of youth are advertised, are seasoned with details from her childhood spent in a highly intellectual, multinational environment, complex experiences are gained, and free flight is learned. The author, among other things, talks about the authors who formed her, about Margaret Diras and hers To a lover, for example.
This story is a true jewel in the crown of her work, a postmodern weaving between fiction, memoir, essay, analytical and epistolary prose.
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