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Will Firth
Will Firth (born 23 May 1965) is an Australian literary translator who focuses on contemporary writing from the Serbo-Croatian speaking countries and North Macedonia. He graduated in German and Russian (with Serbo-Croatian as a minor) from the Australian National University in Canberra in 1986 (BA). He won a scholarship to read South Slavic studies at the University of Zagreb in the 1988–89 academic year and spent a further postgraduate year at the Pushkin Institute in Moscow in 1989–90. Subsequently, he qualified as a translator from Croatian, German, Macedonian and Russian with the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI) in Australia. Since 1991 he has been living in Germany, where he works as a freelance translator of literature and the humanities. He translates from Russian, Macedonian, and all variants of Serbo-Croatian into English, occasionally into German. In 2005-07 he worked for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Petre M
Petre is a surname and given name derived from Peter. Notable persons with that name include: People with the given name Petre * Charles Petre Eyre (1817–1902), English Roman Catholic prelate * Ion Petre Stoican (circa 1930–1990), Romanian violinist * Marian Petre Miluț (born 1955), Romanian politician, engineer and businessman * Petre Andrei (1891–1940), Romanian sociologist * Petre Antonescu (1873–1965), Romanian architect * Petre S. Aurelian (1833–1909), Romanian politician * Petre Cameniță (1889–1962), Romanian general during World War II * Petre P. Carp (1837–1919), Romanian conservative politician and literary critic * Petre Crowder (1919–1999), British Conservative politician and barrister * Petre Dulfu (1856–1953), Romanian poet * Petre Dumitrescu (1882–1950), Romanian general during World War II * Petre Gruzinsky (1920–1984), Georgian poet * Petre Ispirescu (1830–1887), Romanian printer and publicist * Petre Mais (1885–1975), English writer an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faruk Šehić
Faruk Šehić (born 1970) is a Bosnian poet, novelist and short story writer. He was born in Bihać and grew up in Bosanska Krupa. He studied veterinary medicine in Zagreb until the outbreak of the Bosnian war in which he was an active combatant. After the war, he turned to literature. His first book was a collection of poems ''Pjesme u nastajanju'' (''Acquired Poems'', 2000). His short story collection ''Pod pritiskom'' (''Under Pressure'') was published in 2004 and won the Zoro Verlag Prize. The English translation of ''Under Pressure'' was published in May 2019 by Istros Books. His debut novel ''Knjiga o Uni'' (''Quiet Flows the Una'', 2011), was translated into English in 2016 by Istros Books and into Italian in 2017 by E. Mujčić (''Il mio fiume'') for Mimesis, and also into Romanian, Bulgarian, Turkish, Spanish, Macedonian, Arabic, Dutch, Polish, Slovenian and Hungarian language. ''Quiet Flows the Una'' won the Meša Selimović prize for the best novel published in the former ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marija Knežević
Marija Knežević (born 29 December 1963) is a Serbian poet, fiction writer, essayist, literary translator and Professor of literature. Knežević was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1963. She graduated from Belgrade University with a degree in Comparative Literature and Theory of Literature. 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. Selected bibliography Poetry Her poetry includes: * ''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: * ''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 izd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zagreb
Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital and largest city of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb stands near the international border between Croatia and Slovenia at an elevation of approximately above sea level. At the 2021 census, the city had a population of 767,131. The population of the Zagreb urban agglomeration is 1,071,150, approximately a quarter of the total population of Croatia. Zagreb is a city with a rich history dating from Roman times. The oldest settlement in the vicinity of the city was the Roman Andautonia, in today's Ščitarjevo. The historical record of the name "Zagreb" dates from 1134, in reference to the foundation of the settlement at Kaptol in 1094. Zagreb became a free royal city in 1242. In 1851 Janko Kamauf became Zagreb's first mayor. Zagreb has special status as a Croatian administrative division - it comprises a consolidated city-county (but separate f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States, and is more than twice as populous as second-place Los Angeles. New York City lies at the southern tip of New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous megacities, and over 58 million people live within of the city. New York City is a global cultural, financial, entertainment, and media center with a significant influence on commerce, health care and life sciences, research, technology, educa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Balloon Publishing
Black Balloon Publishing is an independent book publisher headquartered in New York City. The company was founded in 2010 by Elizabeth Koch, co-founder of Literary Death Match, and Leigh Newman, deputy editor of Oprah.com. Black Balloon publishes literary fiction, nonfiction, and memoir, and its titles have been featured in ''The New Yorker'', ''New York'', ''Time'', ''Bon Appetit'', ''Esquire'', and ''NPR National Public Radio (NPR, stylized in all lowercase) is an American privately and state funded nonprofit media organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California. It differs from other ...''. Published authors include Paul Kwiatkowski, Robert Perišić, Bill Peters, and Louise Krug. References External links * {{Official website, http://www.blackballoonpublishing.com/ Small press publishing companies 2010 establishments in New York City Companies based in New York City ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Perišić
Robert Perišić (born 1969 in Split, Croatia) is a Croatian writer. His books are considered as authentic portrayals of society in transformation and its (anti)heroes. Biography Perišić graduated in Literature and Croatian language from the University of Zagreb. Since the beginning of the 1990s he has written poetry, short stories, plays, as well as literary reviews in various distinguished Croatian magazines such as ''Feral Tribune'' and ''Globus''. His novel '' Our Man in Iraq'' (''Naš čovjek na terenu'') was the bestselling novel of 2008 in Croatia and has been published in numerous European countries and USA. From 1992 to 2000 Perišić was editor-in-chief of the cultural magazines ''Godine'' and ''Godine nove''. Perišić currently lives and works in Zagreb. Writing ''Our Man in Iraq'' '' Our Man in Iraq'' is a social novel. The main characters of the novel are the young newspaper editor and his cousin who reports from Iraq war 2003. The novel presents some typical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Our Man In Iraq
''Our Man in Iraq'' ( hr, Naš čovjek na terenu) is a novel by Croatian author Robert Perišić. It was originally published in Croatia, where it became a bestseller and received the '' Jutarnji list'' prize for best prose in 2007. The novel was also awarded the Literaturpreis der Steiermärkischen Sparkasse in 2011. ''Our Man in Iraq'' was translated into English by Will Firth and published in the United Kingdom in 2012 by Istros Books and in the United States the following year by Black Balloon Publishing. It is available in paperback and e-book formats. ''The Guardian'' called the English translation "a must-read ... brilliantly captures modern-day Zagreb." It was also praised by ''Publishers Weekly'' as a "smart, cutting book" and by ''The Toronto Star'' as "terrifically witty and original." ''The Times Literary Supplement'' compared the English translation to ''The Good Soldier Švejk'' by Jaroslav Hašek and ''Slaughterhouse Five'' by Kurt Vonnegut. According to ''The New Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrej Nikolaidis
Andrej Nikolaidis (born 1974) is a Montenegrin- Bosnian novelist, columnist, and political adviser. His novel ''Sin'' (The Son) won the European Union Prize for Literature in 2011. The English translation was published in 2013 by Istros Books in the United Kingdom. From October 2009 to February 2014 he was adviser to Ranko Krivokapić, speaker of the Montenegrin Parliament. Biography Nikolaidis was born and raised in Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia into a Montenegrin family. In 1992, following the breakout of the Bosnian War, Nikolaidis's family moved to the Montenegrin town of Ulcinj, his father's hometown , where he owns a summer house. An ardent supporter of Montenegrin independence, anti-war activist and promoter of human rights, especially minority rights, Nikolaidis initially became known for his political views and public feuds, appearing on local television and in newspapers with his razor-sharp political commentaries. His writings for ''Monitor'' a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for two millennia. The City of London, its ancient core and financial centre, was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans as ''Londinium'' and retains its medieval boundaries.See also: Independent city#National capitals, Independent city § National capitals The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has for centuries hosted the national Government of the United Kingdom, government and Parliament of the United Kingdom, parliament. Since the 19th century, the name "London" has also referred to the metropolis around this core, historically split between the Counties of England, counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire, which largely comprises Greater London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ognjen Spahić
Ognjen Spahić (born 1977 in Podgorica, Montenegro), is a Montenegrin novelist. Spahić has published two collections of short stories: ''Sve to'' (All That, 2001) and ''Zimska potraga'' (Winter Search, 2007). His novel ''Hansenova djeca'' (Hansen's Children, 2004) won him the 2005 Meša Selimović Prize for the best new novel from Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina. To date, ''Hansenova djeca'' has been published in French, Italian, Slovenian, Romanian, Hungarian, Macedonian and English by the UK publisheIstros Books His short story “Raymond is No Longer with Us—Carver is Dead” was included in the anthology Best European Fiction 2011 published by Dalkey Archive Press in the USA. In 2007, he was a writing resident at the University of Iowa's International Writing Program. In 2011, he was the recipient of Romania's Ovid Festival Prize The Ovid Prize, established in 2002, is a literary prize awarded annually to an author from any country, in recognition of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
