Recommendation
Marquez: The Story of My Life
Written while Marquez was suffering from cancer, the memoir "Story of My Life" represented the need to tell his life story before he passed away.
Interview: Saša Ilić, writer
No story of resistance is a story of defeat
A characteristic of each of the narrative streams is learning about different forms of resistance. That's why I wrote the novel under a working title Resistance, although I knew I wouldn't publish it under that title. Over time, I realized that there is a common denominator between that working title and the place where the action takes place - the mountain Rtanj, two letters that remind us of the chemical element that the heroes of my novel are fighting for. And that is the "Cape", which, in addition to denoting the protruding free part of the land, is also a symbol for Freedom - a critical mineral that we desperately lack.
Reward
Thriller of the year: "Is it raining at your place too?" Sonja Ćirić among the top ten
The novel "Is it raining at your place too?" by the editor of "Vremena" Sonja Ćirić is one of the ten best thriller novels in the region according to the jury of the prize awarded by the Association of Thriller Writers for the first time this year
A writer's town
Saramago's Lisbon
Like a person, Lisbon is present in Saramago's life and work. It is difficult to determine who gave more to whom in their mutual exchange - the city to the writer or the writer to the city
Reward
Jury of the Nino Prize: "NGDL" breaks away from the dark wave of other novels
The novel "NGDL" is decorated with cheerful humor, which is a departure from the dark wave in which there were several prominent novels, which dealt with the topic in the domain of the ugly, grotesquely ugly and unpleasant - the jury of the Nino Award explained the reasons for awarding this novel by Marinko Arsić Ivkov
Recommendation
A novel about alcoholism in the first person
In the novel "Mali Murat", Vladimir Vulević talks about treatment for alcoholism in the first person. And that's why the reader trusts him
Interview
Vladislav Bajac: The writer does not know if the translation has changed his book
Recently, a Persian translation of Vladislav Bajc's novel "Hamam Balkania" was published in Iran. Of all the editions of his books, two thirds were published abroad
Interview: Bishop Grigorije Durić
Apathy and indifference are not virtues
"Now some other young people have appeared, completely different, who are inspired by the same thing. Maybe they are inspired by someone's religious education, maybe someone's anti-religious education, maybe someone's philosophy... Maybe they are a new world that adapts much better to dramatic technological development. But maybe they actually feel what freedom means in the true sense, even much deeper than we who have uttered the word many times felt it. Perhaps they sense the danger brought with it by the apparent crisis of democracy throughout the world. I confess, I thought there were no more such young people as we were. However, they exist and are realistically much better than us and much less susceptible to manipulation, both by the so-called deep state and by politicians and the media."
Interview: Vladislav Bajac, writer and publisher
A witness-collaborator in his own life
"Both then and now, it's as if we follow each other. To that extent, my mention (and even inventing) of the 'Yugoslav dream' is the shortest, but quite accurate definition of the attainability of the spiritual state of the individual and the nation of that time."
Recommendation
When the past, present and future are created in one
The debut novel "AL T" by Aleksandar Nedeljković, which was first published in America and last month in Belgrade, is a contribution to the genre of science fiction, which is insufficiently present among our authors.
Roman
Antigone in Međimurje
Christian Novak: A case of self-destruction; Literary workshop Rašić, Belgrade, 2023.
Jubilee
Kafka - a few key words
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Franz Kafka, whose novels, for example in To the process, an inexorable force turns a living human into a mechanical device and then "winds" it up at its own will.
Novel: Howards End EM Forster
A strong sweep of style, a wide network of themes and characters
More than half a century after the writer's death, EM Forster's cult novel continues to live, now also in Serbian, as that rare and precious example of a novel that has stood the test of time.
Literature
Defeats and sometimes bitter victories
SE Hinton: The outsider, translated from English by Brana Radević-Stojiljković;
Ulrich Plenzdorf: Novi laments young V., translated from German by Jelena Kostić Tomović;
Laurie Halls Anderson: Speak up, translated from English by Milan Đurić; Laguna, Belgrade, 2024.
Roman
Every east is promised a west (and vice versa)
One has to live under the shadow, and often under that visibly tattered "umbrella" of words, which, well, are not able to fully and accurately reflect even what the mind easily comprehends and what the soul quickly empathizes with. Raimanova excelled in exactly that area - in the field of unspoken recognition of weakness
Recommendation
"Cyclops" by Ranko Marinković after twenty years again in Serbia
"Cyclops" is a book by Yugoslav and then Croatian writer Ranko Mariković that should be read when there is a real danger of fire. It was recently published by the Belgrade-based "Kontrast"
New edition
Haruki Murakami's new novel "The City and its Unsteady Walls"
Geopetica published today Haruki Murakami's new novel "The City and its Unsteady Walls" whose protagonist tries to discover his true self and in the process moves from the real to the unreal world, working in both worlds in a library, one where dreams are stored and the other with books
Was Marquez's novel published against his will?
Almost half of the circulation of "See You in August", Marquez's posthumously published novel, which the writer judged unusable and thought should be destroyed, was sold in all weeks.
New editions
Márquez's Posthumous Novel: About Anna Magdalena Bach Who Thinks About Men
From Tuesday, Marquez's posthumous novel "See you in August" will be available in bookstores in Serbia, as well as around the world, published by SezamBook
Recommendation
Why they kill the poet in socialism
Branko Miljković was born 90 years ago. Dejan Stojiljković writes in the novel "Zvezda nad pražnin" that the poet was killed by order of the UDBA. The novel is based on true events
Reward
Vladan Matijević: It is understandable that the "Beogradski Pobednik" is in my hands
"Pakrac" by Vladan Matijević received the award "Belgrade winner" for the best novel. At the same time, this novel is also shortlisted for the Nino Prize
Culture
A "gentlemanly" move by a writer
Since he owns his novel, the writer has the right to do whatever he wants with it. But only if it is within the limits that befit literature and culture
Culture
Booker Prize 2023 to Irish writer Paul Lynch
"The Prophet's Song" is the story of one woman's struggle to protect her family as Ireland's imaginary government descends into tyranny
Roman
Simple and gentle
Bronja Jakelj: White is washed at ninety Translated by Sonja Ćirić; Laguna 2023.
Culture
"Meša Selimović" award to Boro Ćosić
I think that every award does not go to the author, but to the work, that's why I think that this award was given to "Bergot's widow" and not me, said the author of the novel for which he just received the regional award "Meša Selimović".