Marija Knežević (born 29 December 1963) is a Serbian poet, fiction writer, essayist,

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and Professor of literature. Knežević was born in Belgrade,

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, in 1963. She graduated from

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with a degree in Comparative Literature and Theory of Literature. She later completed her

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degree at Michigan State University where she also taught from 1996 to 2000. She wrote a column for the ''

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'' 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

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(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,

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. (2004) * ''Ekaterini'' , (2005). Translation into English:

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, London; England. (2013) * ''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 (

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, US).

References

External links

SKD/Marija Knežević

Knjižara.com/Marija Knežević
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