Selma Skenderović
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Selma Skenderović is
Bosniak The Bosniaks (, Cyrillic script, Cyrillic: Бошњаци, ; , ) are a South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to the Southeast European historical region of Bosnia (region), Bosnia, today part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and who sha ...
descent Slovene writer, poet, and slovenist.


Life

She was born in present-day
Kosovo Kosovo, officially the Republic of Kosovo, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe with International recognition of Kosovo, partial diplomatic recognition. It is bordered by Albania to the southwest, Montenegro to the west, Serbia to the ...
. At the age of nine, she moved to
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with her parents. She is studying Slovene and comparative studies at the Faculty of Arts,
University of Ljubljana The University of Ljubljana (, , ), abbreviated UL, is the oldest and largest university in Slovenia. It has approximately 38,000 enrolled students. The university has 23 faculties and three art academies with approximately 4,000 teaching and re ...
. She publishes prose and poetry in various anthologies and other platforms. In 2021, she published her first work of short prose ''Why Are You Silent, Hava?'' (Zakaj molčiš, Hava?) which has been translated into several languages (
English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Culture, language and peoples * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England * ''English'', an Amish ter ...
, Montenegrin, Bosnian). It was translated into English by Andreja Šalamon Verbič. This book has been selected for the project ''Readers of Europe 2022.''


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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Skenderovic, Selma 2001 births Living people People from Koper 21st-century Slovenian writers Slovenian novelists Slovenian women poets Slavists Immigrants to Slovenia Slovenian people of Bosniak descent Kosovan people of Bosniak descent