Igor Marojević

Igor Marojević is one of the most important Serbian writers of XXIst Century.Born in Vrbas, Serbia in 1968. he is the youngest prose author presented in the latest edition of Jovan deretić's "Short History of Serbian Literature". He lives in Zemun/Belgrade, Serbia.

Biography

Igor Marojević was born in Vrbas,Serbia in 1968. He graduated from the Department of Serbian language and Literature, Faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade.He published novels "Obmana Boga" ("To Deceive God", 1997), "Dvadeset četiri zida" ("Twenty-four walls", 1998), "Žega" ("Drought", 2004, 2008) and "Šnit" ("Schnitt", 2007, 2008), together with two books of stories "Tragači" ("Seekers", 2001) i "Mediterani" ("Mediterraneans" 2006, 2008). For the novel 'Žega' he received “Stevan Pešić” award and won a prize given by Borislav Pekić Fund.

His play "Nomadi" ("Nomads") was staged in Spain in 2004,the adaptation of this play was staged in Serbia under the name "Tvrđava Evropa" ("Fortress Europe") as a part of [http://belef08.org/english/belef08eng.html"BELEF"("Belgrade Summer Festival")] . The adaptation of his second novel was also staged in Serbian theater. His novel "Obmana Boga" was translated to Spanish and Portuguese and his play "Nomadi" to Catalan; his collection of stories "Tragači" was translated to Macedonian. His works entered anthologies of Serbian literature in Italian, Czech, Hungarian, Ukrainian and Slovenian language.

He is a member of both Catalan and Serbian PEN Center and the youngest prose author presented in the latest edition of Jovan deretić's "Short History of serbian Literature". He lives in Zemun/Belgrade, Serbia.

Published works

Novels

* "Obmana Boga" ("To Deceive God", 1997)
* "Dvadeset četiri zida" ("Twenty-four walls", 1998)
* "Žega" ("Drought", 2004, 2008)
* "Šnit" ("Schnitt", 2007, 2008)

Story collections

* "Tragači" ("Seekers", 2001)
* "Mediterani" ("Mediterraneans", 2006, 2008)

Plays

* "Nomadi" ("Nomads", 2004)

Anthologies entered

* "Zbornik srpske proze u recepciji Petera Handkea" (ed. Žarko Radaković). (Tragische Intensität Europas, Das Schreibheft 71, Essen, 2008).
* "The Selection of the Balkan Literature in Ukrainian" (www.potyah76.org.ua)
* "Ztracen v samoobsluze" ("The Lost in the Supermarket" – antology in the Chech, ed. Tatjana Micić, IP Bělehrad, 2007)
* "Casablanca serba" (ed. Nikole Janigro), Feltrinelli, Milano, 2003)
* "Bizarni raskazi" ("The Bizar Stories"), ed. Tatjana Rosić, "Magor", Skopje, Macedonia, 2003
* "Odbrana i poslednji dani" ("Defence and the Last Days",ed. S.V. Tešin, "Libra Libera" No 10, Zagreb, Croatia, 2002)
* YU Blok (ed. A. Čar), “Apokalipsa”, Ljubljana, Slovenia, No 51-52, 2002
* "Sportska priča" ("The Stories on Sports"), (ed. V. Žurić y V. Pavković, 2001; AlexandriaPress, Belgrado,
* "Priče za kraj veka" ("The Stories for the End of the Century"), ed. S. V. Tešin, Kikindske, Kikinda, 2000
* "Izbor srpske proze na mađarskom" ("The Selection of the Serbian Prose in Hungarian"), ed. S. Ilć, "Orbis" Kanisza, 1/2-2000,

External links

* [http://www.sandorf.hr/authors_det_eng.php?autor_id=7 Igor Marojević's short biography and presentantion of the novel Schnitt]
* [http://www.drustvoknjizevnika.com/images/greda/greda1/Igor%20Marojevic.pdf Excerpt dedicated to Hugo Boss, from the novel Schnitt, in Serbian and English]
* [http://www.blesok.com.mk/tekst.asp?lang=eng&tekst=472 Perast, the story from the short stories collections “Seekers” and “Mediterranean”, in English]
* [http://www.alexandria-press.com/arhiva/on_line/No_1/strength_in_giving_up.htm "Strength in Giving Up", three chapters from the novel "How To Deceive God", in English]