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The CEI Fellowship for Writers in Residence for 2007
Foolowing the application rules the Fellowship jury including
Ludwig Hartinger, chair, Austria, Patrizia Vascotto,
Italy, Vanesa Matajc, Slovenia, Lucija Stupica,
Slovenia and Jani Virk, Slovenia selected three shortlisted
applications. The candidates will be guests of the Vilenica
festival while the fellowship winner will be announced at the
Festival Launch on 5 Sept 2007 at 6 p.m. 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
for the year 2007 is:
Marianna Kiyanovska, Ukraine
Marianna Kiyanovska (b. 1973) is a poet, a prose writer, a
translator and a literary critic. She lives and works in Lviv,
Ukraine. She is the author of several collections of poetry:
Incarnation (1997), Sonnets (1999), Myth Creation (2001), Love and
War (co-authored with Marjana Savka, 2002), The Book of Adam
(2004) and Simple Speech (2005), as well as short stories and
research articles. She also translates Polish, Russian and
Byelorussian poetry. She is a member of the National Union of
Writers of Ukraine and of the Association of Ukrainian Writers.
The CEI Fellowship Committee:
A Path alongside the River (Steza ob reki)
"The poet, writer, translator and literary critic Marianna
Kiyanovska lives in Lviv, where she is very active in culture. As
the author of numerous poetry collections, short stories and
essays she has published her compositions in school journals as
well. A number of pieces of research have focused on her work. She
has received numerous awards and acknowledgments.
Her project encompassing a series of short stories or a short
story novel deals with the question of myth and the mechanisms of
mythologisation in contemporary culture. The project surpasses the
boundaries of the classical tradition, though it is linked to it,
with its unique approach, pronouncedly typical of the author. The
events escalating at the same time and place shun the already
defined dimension by using the familiar time and space
coordinates. The myth becomes the only form of consciousness
existing beyond time alongside of the thread interweaving statics
and dynamics, invariability and variability."
The Candidates for the CEI Fellowship for Writers in Residence
for the year 2007 are:
Igor Štiks, Croatia
Igor Štiks was born in 1977 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
His fiction, literary criticism and essays have appeared widely in
journals and publications of the former Yugoslavia. His novel
Dvorac u Romagni (A Castle in Romagna, 2000) received the Slavić
Award for the Best First Novel in Croatia. To date it has been
translated into German (2002), English (2005) and Spanish (2006).
His recently published second novel Elijahova stolica (Elijah’s
Chair, 2006) received both the K. Š. Gjalski Award and the
Croatian Writers’, Editors’ And Literary Critics’ Kiklop Award for
the Best Work of Fiction. Several foreign editions of the novel,
among others also a Slovenian one (translated by Jurij Hudolin),
are forthcoming. His other works (short fiction and essays) have
also appeared in English, French, German, Greek, Bulgarian,
Turkish, Macedonian, and Slovene translations.
The CEI Fellowship Committee:
Archipelago (Arhipelag)
"Štiks is an acclaimed writer, whose works have been translated
into numerous languages. He also writes essays on literature and
is an editor. His first novel won him a number of awards for best
first book. He has also received numerous grants as a writer. His
project is a novel dealing with the second half of the twentieth
century and the major socio-political changes taking place in the
then Europe. The novel is based on the experiences of two
characters who act as an incentive for the novel of the third
character. Literature, society, individuality are opposed to
dilemmas regarding participation, passivity and indecisiveness as
alternatives for the contemporary human being."
Pavle Goranović, Montenegro
Pavle Goranović (Nikšić, 1973) graduated in philosophy at the
Faculty of Arts. He is the editor of ARS, a magazine on
literature, culture and social issues. He writes poetry, prose and
critical reviews. He has published the following books:
Ornamentika noći (Ornamentation of the Night, 1994), Čitanje
tišine (Reading the Silence, 1997), Knjiga privida (Book of
Apparitions, 2002), What Books Smell Like (e-book edition in
Serbian and English, 2005). He has also edited a selection of
contemporary Montenegrin poetry (2005). His works have been
translated into numerous foreign languages. The poetry collection
Knjiga prividov (The Book of Mirages, 2006) has even been
published in a Slovenian translation.
The CEI Fellowship Committee:
Letters from Central Europe (Pisma iz srednje Evrope)
"As the author of a number of works which have also been
published in journals, Goranović has been translated into numerous
languages, not all spoken in Europe. The project includes a series
of literary essays on some of the Vilenica prize winners. The idea
originates in the circumstance that these authors influenced the
candidate himself, but more importantly, it also originates in the
author`s notion of setting up a network linking the Central
European literatures to Montenegro, a country having the
standpoint of an observer– as Montenegro is a minor literary venue
willing to open up and make contacts with the major protagonists
of European cultures."
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