Oto Horvat (born 1967) is a Serbian poet and writer. He lives and works in

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Recent activity

In 2017, Oto Horvat has signed the

Declaration on the Common Language The Declaration on the Common Language ( sh, Deklaracija o zajedničkom jeziku / ) was issued in 2017 by a group of intellectuals and NGOs from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia who were working under the banner of a projec ...

of the

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, Bosniaks and

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Works

* ''Gde nestaje šuma'' (KZNS, Novi Sad, 1987, Branko Award) * ''Zgrušavanje'' (Matica srpska, Novi Sad, 1990) * ''Gorki listovi'' (Bratstvo Jedinstvo, Novi Sad, 1990) * ''Fotografije'' (Prometej, Novi Sad, 1996) * ''Canada. Gedichte'' (Verlag Bernhard Martin, Fuhrt (Bay), 1999) * ''Dozvola za boravak'' (Narodna knjiga,

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, 2002) * ''Putovati u Olmo'' (Narodna biblioteka Stefan Prvovenčani,

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, 2008) * ''Izabrane & nove pesme'' (Kulturni centar Novog Sada,

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 ...

, 2009) * ''Sabo je stao'' (Agora,

, 2014) * ''Kao Celanovi ljubavnici'' (Akademska knjiga,

, 2016) * ''Noćna projekcija'' (Akademska knjiga,

, 2021) His poems are represented in the anthologies Zvezde su lepe, ali nemam kad da ih gledam. Antologija srpske urbane poezije. Ed. Radmila Lazić (Beograd Samizdat B92); Die Neuen Mieter. Fremde Blick auf ein vertrautes Land, Ed. I. Mickiewicz (Berlin, Aufbau Taschenbuch Verlag, 2004) and Crtež koji kaplje. Vojvodina's new yearbook poetry Ed. S. Radonjic, (To jest, Novi Sad, 1988). For ''Sabo je stao'' Horvat was shortlisted for the

Nin prize 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 ...

in 2015, his novel won ''Biljana Jovanović'' and ''Mirko Kovač'' literary prizes in 2015.

Translations

* Janoš Pilinski, ''Krater. Selected Poems'' (JMMT Forum, Novi Sad, 1992) * Oto Fenjveši, ''Anđeo haosa. Selected Poems'' (Prometheus, Novi Sad, 2009) * Hans Magnus Encensberger, ''Poslednji pozdrav astronautima. Selected Poems'' (Agora, Zrenjanin, 2010)

References

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