The CEI Fellowship for Writers in Residence The CEI Fellowship for Writers in Residence is a newly established award presented by the Central European Initiative in collaboration with the Slovene Writers’ Association as part of the Vilenica Festival. The Fellowship seeks to encourage cross-border cooperation and promotion in the field of literature for young writers from Central European Initiative member states that are not members of the European Union. The Fellowship, which is endowed with a cash award of 5,000 EUR, is intended to be used for a three-month residence in any CEI member state of the candidate’s choice. During this period, the author will work on the project he or she indicated in the application form. Foolowing the application rules the Fellowship jury including Patrizia Vascotto, Italija / Italy, predsednica / chair, Igor Grdina, Slovenija / Slovenia, Ludwig Hartinger, Avstrija / Austria, Lucija Stupica, Slovenija / Slovenia and Jani Virk, Slovenija / Slovenia selected three shortlisted applications. The candidates have been guests of the Vilenica festival while the fellowship winner will be announced at the Festival Launch on 6 Sept 2006 at 6 pm in Lipica. The winner has been announced by Director General of the CEI, Amb. Harald Kreid. The recipient of the CEI Fellowship for Writers in Residence is: Goce Smilevski, Macedonia Goce Smilevski (1975) was educated at the University of Skopje, at Charles University in Prague and at the Central European University in Budapest. He is the author of the novels The Planet of Inexperience (2000), Conversation with Spinoza (2002) and Sigmund Freud’s Sister (2006). For Conversation with Spinoza he received the Macedonian Novel of the Year Award. The novel was translated in Slovenia, USA, Poland and Serbia The Candidates for the CEI Fellowship for Writers in Residence for the year 2006 are: Nikola Madzirov, Macedonia Nikola Madzirov (1973, Macedonia). Books of poetry: Locked in the city (award Studentski Zbor, 2000), Somewhere Nowhere (award Aco Karamanov, 1999), In the city, somewhere (2004). He is the editor of the magazine Blesok, a coordinator for Macedonia of the literary nets LitKon and Lyrikline. His poems are translated into English, German, Polish, Dutch, Spanish, Japanese, Slovene, Danish, Croatian, Bulgarian, Estonian, Serbian and Albanian. Ana Ristović and Jasmina Topić, Serbia Ana Ristović was born on 5 April 1972 in Belgrade. She graduated in Comparative Literature from the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade. She published the following books: Snovidna voda (1994, Branko's prize), Uže od peska (1997), Zabava za dokone kćeri (1999, Prize of Branko Miljković and Prize at the Book fair in Igalo), Život na razglednici (2003), and Oko nule (2006). She received the German prize for young European poetry Hubert Burda Preis (2005). Her poems have been translated into English, German, Slovakian, Macedonian, Slovenian, Polish, Bulgarian, Swedish and Finnish. They have appeared in several anthologies and magazines in Serbia and abroad. Jasmina Topić was born on 4 August 1977 in Pančevo, Serbia. She studied Serbian language and literature at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade. She published the following books: ,,Suncokreti. Skica za dan ", 1997; ,,Pansion. Metamorfoze", 2001; ,,Romantizam", 2005. She is the editor of the Book of young poetry and short stories from former Yugoslavia, ,,Rukopisi", co-editor of the literary magazine ,,Kvartal" (publisher - Associations of writers, Pančevo), and journalist and editor in weekly newspaper ,,Pančevac". She lives in Pančevo. .

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