Sonja Veselinović ( Serbian-Cyrillic: Соња Веселиновић; born 9 December 1981 in

Novi Sad Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; #Name, see below for other names) is the List of cities in Serbia, second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pannoni ...

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) is a

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n writer and

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at the Philosophical Faculty of the

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Biography

Sonja Veselinović studied

at the Faculty of Philosophy of the

, graduated with

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in 2009 and obtained her doctorate as

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in 2014. In 2016, she became assistant professor (

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) at the department of comparative literature of the university. The literary scholar and artist is member of the editorial board of literary magazine Polja (Fields) since 2007. In the same year, she received the first prize of the Festival of Young Poets (Serbian: Festival mladih pesnika) in

Zaječar Zaječar ( sr-Cyrl, Зајечар, ; or ) is a city and the administrative center of the Zaječar District in eastern Serbia. According to the 2022 census, the city administrative area had a population of 48,621 inhabitants. Zaječar is widely ...

. The best

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''Poema preko'' (Poem across) was published as book a year later – a ''poem across'' the way of individual being. The narrator figure (

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) addresses

Marina Tsvetaeva Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva ( rus, Марина Ивановна Цветаева, p=mɐˈrʲinə ɪˈvanəvnə tsvʲɪˈta(j)ɪvə, links=yes; 31 August 1941) was a Russian poet. Her work is some of the most well-known in twentieth-century Russ ...

in dealing with the issues of

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, creativity and self-fulfillment. This fragmentary, intertextual and discursive

prose Prose is language that follows the natural flow or rhythm of speech, ordinary grammatical structures, or, in writing, typical conventions and formatting. Thus, prose ranges from informal speaking to formal academic writing. Prose differs most n ...

searches for the limits of representation of

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through different

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and vivid

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. An excerpt of the work has been published in Hungarian and German translation. In 2009, she participated in a reading by Denny Rosenthal during the '' German Cultural Days Novi Sad'', and she was supported by

Borislav Pekić Borislav Pekić ( sr-Cyrl, Борислав Пекић, ; 4 February 1930 – 2 July 1992) was a Serbian writer and political activist. He was born in 1930, to a prominent family in Montenegro, at that time part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. From ...

Foundation. Belgrade's

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e selected her for participation as one of the Serbian artistic representants at the ''European Borderlands Festival 2010'' of Allianz Cultural Foundation. She was invited guest of the Committee on Cultural and Media Affairs of the German

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in cooperation with the ''

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Foundation'' at the

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2011. She is also laureate of the Isidora Sekulić Award 2013 for her prose ''Krosfejd''. The title is the Serbian term for Crossfade. This prose can be described as mixture (crossfade) of two inner voices of the

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, its fragmented narration,

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and imagery reflects motifs of longing for love and self-knowledge in searching for individual authenticity. Veselinović compiled the work edition of Ivan V. Lalić for volume 86 of the

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''Ten Centuries of Serbian Literature'' of

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, and her study on specific topic from a novel of Danilo Kiš ( child perspective in Garden, Ashes) has been published in volume 1 of

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of the

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. The scholar gave a lecture on

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in 2018. So far, in addition to her scientific work, she devoted herself to the translation of few English and French works of John Ashbury,

Jean Giraudoux Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux (; ; 29 October 1882 – 31 January 1944) was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. His wo ...

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and

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into Serbian. Veselinović supports the protest movement ''1 od 5 miliona''. She was member of

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of ''

Desanka Maksimović Desanka Maksimović ( sr-Cyrl, Десанка Максимовић; 16 May 1898 – 11 February 1993) was a Serbian poet, writer and translator. Her first works were published in the literary journal ''Misao'' in 1920, while she was studying at t ...

Awards'' 2018 and 2019.

Awards

* Isidora Sekulić Award, 2013

Bibliography (selection)

* ''Poema preko'' (Poem across), Dom omladine, Zaječar 2008, , prose. * ''Prevodilačka poetika Ivana V. Lalića'' (Translation Poetics of Ivan V. Lalić), Akademska knjiga, Novi Sad 2012, . * ''Krosfejd'', Kulturni centar Novog Sada, Novi Sad 2013, , prose. *''Kind und Jugendlicher in der Literatur und im Film Bosniens, Kroatiens und Serbiens'' (Child and Adolescent in the Literature and in the Film of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia), edited by Renate Hansen-Kokoruš & Elena Popovska, Band 1, Grazer Studien zur Slawistik, Kovač,

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2013, . * ''Recepcija, kanon, ciljna kultura : slika modernog angloameričkog pesništva u savremenoj srpskoj književnosti'' ( Reception, canon, target culture: picture of modern

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n poetry in contemporary

Serbian literature Serbian literature ( sr-Cyrl, Српска књижевност, ''Srpska književnost''), refers to literature written in Serbian language, Serbian and/or in Serbia and all other Serbian diaspora, lands where Serbs reside. The history of Serbia ...

), Akademska knjiga, Novi Sad 2018, .Catalogue
of Serbian Libraries, retrieved 2018-03-24.

References

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