Sonja Veselinović ( Serbian-Cyrillic: Соња Веселиновић; born 9 December 1981 in
Novi Sad
Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; hu, Újvidék, ; german: Neusatz; see below for other names) is the second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pan ...
Serbia
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n writer and
assistant professor
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Overview
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of
comparative literature
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at the Philosophical Faculty of the
University of Novi Sad
The University of Novi Sad ( sr, Универзитет у Новом Саду, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu; hu, Újvidéki Egyetem) is a public university in Novi Sad, Serbia. Alongside nationally prestigious University of Belgrade, University of ...
.
Biography
Sonja Veselinović studied
comparative literature
Comparative literature is an academic field dealing with the study of literature and cultural expression across linguistic, national, geographic, and disciplinary boundaries. Comparative literature "performs a role similar to that of the study ...
at the Faculty of Philosophy of the
University of Novi Sad
The University of Novi Sad ( sr, Универзитет у Новом Саду, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu; hu, Újvidéki Egyetem) is a public university in Novi Sad, Serbia. Alongside nationally prestigious University of Belgrade, University of ...
, graduated with
Magister degree
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The magister degree arose in medieval universities in Europe and was originally equal to th ...
in 2009 and obtained her doctorate as PhD in 2014. In 2016, she became assistant professor (
docent
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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, ; ro, Zaicear or ) is a city and the administrative center of the Zaječar District in eastern Serbia. According to the 2011 census, the city administrative area has a population of 59,461 inhabitants.
Zaječar ...
. The best
manuscript
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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 (
first-person narrative
A first-person narrative is a mode of storytelling in which a storyteller recounts events from their own point of view using the first person It may be narrated by a first-person protagonist (or other focal character), first-person re-teller, ...
) addresses
Marina Tsvetaeva
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (russian: Марина Ивановна Цветаева, p=mɐˈrʲinə ɪˈvanəvnə tsvʲɪˈtaɪvə; 31 August 1941) was a Russian poet. Her work is considered among some of the greatest in twentieth century Russia ...
in dealing with the issues of
identity
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, creativity and self-fulfillment. This fragmentary,
intertextual
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and discursive
prose
Prose is a form of written or spoken language that follows the natural flow of speech, uses a language's ordinary grammatical structures, or follows the conventions of formal academic writing. It differs from most traditional poetry, where the f ...
searches for the limits of representation of
subjectivity
Subjectivity in a philosophical context has to do with a lack of objective reality. Subjectivity has been given various and ambiguous definitions by differing sources as it is not often the focal point of philosophical discourse.Bykova, Marina F ...
through different
personas
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and vivid
imagery
Imagery is visual symbolism, or figurative language that evokes a mental image or other kinds of sense impressions, especially in a literary work, but also in other activities such as psychotherapy.
Forms
There are five major types of sensory im ...
. 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-cyr, Борислав Пекић, ; 4 February 1930 – 2 July 1992) was a Serbian and Yugoslav writer and political activist.
He was born in 1930, to a prominent family in Montenegro, at that time part of the Kingdom of Yugo ...
Goethe-Institut
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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
Bundestag
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Leipzig Book Fair
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2011. She is also laureate of the
Isidora Sekulić Award
The Isidora Sekulić Award ( sr, Nagrada Isidora Sekulić, italics=yes, sr-cyr, Награда Исидора Секулић) is a Serbian, and former Yugoslav, literary prize established by the Belgrade municipality of Savski venac in 1967 and ...
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
main character
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, its fragmented narration,
intertextuality
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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
Ivan V. Lalić (8 June 1931 – 28 July 1996) was a Serbian and Yugoslav poet.anthology
In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler; it may be a collection of plays, poems, short stories, songs or excerpts by different authors.
In genre fiction, the term ''anthology'' typically categ ...
''Ten Centuries of Serbian Literature'' of
Matica srpska
The Matica srpska ( sr-Cyrl, Матица српска, Matica srpska, la, Matrix Serbica, grc, Μάτιτσα Σρπσκα) is the oldest Serbian language independent, non-profit, non-governmental and cultural-scientific Serbian national inst ...
, and her study on specific topic from a novel of
Danilo Kiš
Danilo Kiš (; born Dániel Kiss; 22 February 1935 – 15 October 1989) was a Yugoslav novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator. His best known works include ''Hourglass'', ''A Tomb for Boris Davidovich'' and '' The Encyclopedia of ...
University of Graz
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History
The unive ...
. The scholar gave a lecture on
Yugoslav Black Wave
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at
Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg
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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
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His work ...
,
Milan Kundera
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and
Jacques Rancière
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into Serbian.
Veselinović supports the protest movement ''1 od 5 miliona''.
She was member of
Jury
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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 th ...
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
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* ''Recepcija, kanon, ciljna kultura : slika modernog angloameričkog pesništva u savremenoj srpskoj književnosti'' (
Reception
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Astrology
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, canon, target culture: picture of modern
Anglo-America
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n poetry in contemporary
Serbian literature
Serbian literature ( sr-Cyrl, Српска књижевност), refers to literature written in Serbian and/or in Serbia and all other lands where Serbs reside.
The history of Serbian literature begins with the independent works from the Nema ...
), Akademska knjiga, Novi Sad 2018, .Catalogue of Serbian Libraries, retrieved 2018-03-24.