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The CEI Fellowship for Writers in Residence for 2008
Foolowing the application rules the Fellowship jury including
Patrizia Vascotto, chair, Italy, Ludwig
Hartinger, Austria, Vanesa Matajc,
Slovenia, Lucija Stupica, Slovenia and
Jani Virk, Slovenia selected three shortlisted
applications. The candidates were guests of the Vilenica
festival while the fellowship winner was announced at the
Festival Launch on 3 Sept 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 2008 is:
Ivana Sajko, Croatia
Ivana Sajko was born in 1975 in Zagreb. She is active as a
playwright, director, theatre theoretician and author of radio
productions and multimedia projects. Furthermore, she is the
dramaturge and guest lecturer at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in
Zagreb. The theatre ensemble BAD co. was partly her brainchild. In
addition she is also a member of the editorial board of Frakcija –
performing arts magazine. She performs and directs her own texts
experimenting with interdisciplinary approaches to the problems of
drama writing and performing. Her books include a collection of
plays Smaknuta lica (Executed Faces, 2001), trilogy of monologues
Žena bomba (Woman-bomb, 2004), novel Rio bar (2006) and theory
book Prema ludilu (i revoluciji) (Towards Madness (and
Revolution), 2006). Ivana Sajko, a three time winner of the
Croatian Marin Držić national award, has also been honoured by the
Sfera award, the Croatian Theatre award and the Vjesnik award for
the novel Rio bar.
The CEI Fellowship Committee:
»One of the most interesting representatives of Croatian prose,
Ivana Sajko, writes stories and essays; she is also very active in
theatre (performance, dance). She graduated at the theatre academy
in Zagreb where she is currently working as visiting professor.
She has published many theatre plays, a novel (awarded with the
Vjesnik prize) and a theoretical essay. Her project is inspired by
antique subject matter – Nero, the fire of Rome, the decline of
Troy, the historian Suetonius – nevertheless, the past and present
interlace in the depiction of chaos, which marked completely
different political and social conflicts in Seattle, Genoa, Paris
and Marseille. The narrative units form a circle, which in its own
turn forms a polyphonic, dialectic and ideological novel.«
The Candidates for the CEI Fellowship for Writers in
Residence for the year 2008 are:
Lejla Kalamujić, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Lejla Kalamujić was born in 1980 in Sarajevo (Bosnia and
Herzegovina). She studied Philosophy and Sociology at the Faculty
of Philosophy in Sarajevo. In 2008, Lejla won the Zoro prize
(annual prize for the best book of short stories) for her book
named Anatomija osmijeha (Anatomy of a Smile). She has
been publishing short stories since 2003 in various Croatian,
Serbian and Bosnian literary magazines, such as Libra libera,
Urbani vračevi, Lapis Histriae, Ekran priče, Super Cyber Story,
Poqueerene priče and Život
The CEI Fellowship
Committee:
“The young Bosnian writer Lejla Kalamujić lives in
Sarajevo where she works as web editor. She has published numerous
stories in Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian magazines; her story
collection is due to come out soon. Her project is a story about
experiences and encounters in postwar Sarajevo and elsewhere. The
spatial and inner time travel intertwines with the story of a
band, with the international presence of the humanitarian workers
in Bosnia during the war, with the inevitable transformation of a
certain person and with the intimate development of the
protagonist. As a novel inside of a novel the story becomes the
mirror of a life and at the same time the intense and bitter
contemplation of a certain generation and its own existence with-
as the background- the city, which is never going to be the same.”
Ira Tsilyk, Ukraine
Ira Tsilyk (1982) is a young Ukrainian writer and film director.
She graduated from Kiev's National University of Theatre,
Cinematography and Television, named after I. Karpenko-Karyy in
2004, and works in the cinema and advertising industry in Kiev.
She writes poetry and prose. She has so far published the poetry
collection Ці (Tsi, 2007) and the prose work Післявчора (The Day
after Yesterday, 2008). She has also contributed to several
literary collections, journals and almanacs. Moreover, she has won
several awards at different Ukrainian literary contests.
The CEI Fellowship Committee:
“Ira
Tsilyk, the new voice of Ukrainian prose, although already active
on the poetry scene with one book of poetry besides numerous poems
in magazines and online, lives in Kiew, where she was born. She
graduated in theatrology, cinematography and television, she works
in the film industry as a videomaker, actress and translator. Her
novel project consists of stories about lives which show
themselves on display on balconies, and stories about people`s
hopes. The images and persons are linked together in a chain
structure, their stories entangle in a new closed circle. The
differences and similarities, yearnings and disappointments come
in close succession, leading to an unexpected ending.”
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