Residencies Detail

Residency of Marija Dejanović

hosted by Den poezie
Participating countries:
  • Croatia
  • Czechia
  • Greece
  • United Kingdom
  • Literature
  • Music
  • Spoken Word
© LAF

Period

  • From 01-06-2024 to 30-01-2025
Generation #3

Website

Address

Prague

Project summary

The activity encompasses creative and professional development strands, and will build on our previous EFFEA-supported project to continue exploring the topic of displacement, migration and cultural and linguistic identity through poetry. The emerging Bosnian-Croatian poet and author Marija Dejanović will present her work in translation to audiences in the Czech Republic, Greece and Wales in collaboration with local artists, poets and musicians. Her residency will take place in Prague, where she will create an innovative multilingual staging of her poetry. Online and in-person workshops will bring the participating artists and partners together for additional exchange of ideas and networking.
© Ivan Posavac

Artist

Marija Dejanović

Biography: Marija Dejanović (1992) was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina and grew up in Croatia, where she and her family came as refugees. She graduated in Comparative Literature and Pedagogy from the University of Zagreb. She writes poetry, literary reviews and theatre plays, and her poetry books have won or have been shortlisted for key literary awards in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. She has published three collections to date, Etika kruha i konja (Ethics of Bread and Horses, 2018), Središnji god (Heartwood, 2019), and Dobrota razdvaja dan i noć, (Kindness Separates Night From Day, 2021). She was also awarded by the Croatian Ministry of Culture for her dramatic text Ne moramo više govoriti, svi su otišli (We Don’t Have to Speak Anymore, They Are All Gone).
Contact: marija.dejanovic92@gmail.com
Social media: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008814602798 https://www.instagram.com/marijadejanovic__
Work: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/reviews/160550/kindness-separates-night-from-day https://www.readingbalkans.eu/authors/marija-dejanovic/ https://www.versopolis.com/poet/236/marija-dejanovic

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