Tanja Stupar-Trifunović (born 1977) is an author from

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Background

Stupar-Trifunović was born in 1977 in

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, Croatia. She left Zadar with her family at the beginning of the Yugoslav wars. She attended Serbian language and literature at the

University of Banja Luka The University of Banja Luka ( sr, Универзитет у Бањој Луци, Univerzitet u Banjoj Luci, bs, Univerzitet u Banjoj Luci, hr, Sveučilište u Banjoj Luci, lat, Universitas Bania Lucensis) is the second-oldest university in Bosn ...

and currently lives in

Banja Luka Banja Luka ( sr-Cyrl, Бања Лука, ) or Banjaluka ( sr-Cyrl, Бањалука, ) is the second largest city in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the largest city of Republika Srpska. Banja Luka is also the ''de facto'' capital of this entity. I ...

Works

Stupar-Trifunović's writing often explores loss and the lives of women, specifically in the context of the Yugoslav wars. Primarily a poet, Stupar-Trifunović has also published a novel, as well as short stories, columns and literary reviews. Her first novel, ''Satovi u majčinoj sobi (Clocks in my mother’s room)'', was published in 2014. Poetry and short story collections published by Stupar-Trifunović include: * ''Kuća od slova'' (1999, Zadužbina, “Petar Kočić” Banja Luka) * ''Uspostavljanje ravnoteže'' (2002, KOV) * ''Adornova svraka'' (2007, Zalihica) * ''O čemu misle varvari dok doručkuju'' (2008, Zoro), poetry, title translates to ''What Barbarians Are Thinking about While Having Breakfast'' * ''Glavni junak je čovjek koji se zaljubljuje u nesreću'' (2010, Zaklada Fra Grgo Martić), poetry, title translates to ''The Hero is the Man Who Falls in Love with Calamity'' Poetry by Stupar-Trifunović has been translated into several languages including English, German, Polish, French, Macedonian, Romanian, Slovene and Danish. Stupar-Trifunović currently works as Editor for the literary magazine ''Putevi'' and is developing her second novel.

Awards

In 2016, Stupar-Trifunović won the

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for her novel ''Satovi u majčinoj sobi (Clocks in my mother’s room).'' The novel was also short listed for the 2014

NIN Award The ''NIN'' Award ( sr, Ninova nagrada, italics=yes, Нинова награда), officially the Award for Best Novel of the Year, is a prestigious Serbian (and previously Yugoslavian) literary award established in 1954 by the ''NIN'' weekly an ...

(considered the leading Serbian literary prize). In 2013 it won the Zlatna sova third-place award for the best novel manuscript in Serbian language. In 2008, Stupar-Trifunović was shortlisted in the poetry category of the CEE Literature Award. Her poetry collection, ''O čemu misle varvari dok doručkuju'', was shortlisted for the ProCredit Bank Literature Award for East and Southeast Europe. In 2009 ''Glavni junak je čovjek koji se zaljubljuje u nesreću'' won the Fra Grgo Martić Literary Award.

Residencies

In January 2017, Stupar-Trifunović began an artists-in-residence programme at the Q21 in

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References

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