Igor Marojević


Igor Marojević is a Serbian writer.

Biography

Marojević was born in Vrbas, Serbia in 1968.
Igor Marojević graduated from the Department of Serbian language and Literature, at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology. He received his M.A. in World Literature at the Universitat Autónoma in Barcelona.
He published the novels Dvadeset četiri zida, Žega, Parter, Šnit, Majčina ruka, Tuđine, Roman o pijanstvima, Prave Beograđanke and Ostaci sveta together with four books of stories Tragači, Mediterani, Beograđanke. and Sve za lepotu. As an inspiration for the character in a novel "True Women from Belgrade" served Tanja Tatomirovic.
His play Nomadi, written in Spanish as Los nómadas was staged in Spain, in Terrassa and Bilbao. The adaptation of this play was staged in Serbia under the name Tvrđava Evropa as a part of BELEF. The adaptation of his first novel was also staged in Serbian theater, in production of Beogradsko dramsko pozorište which produced as well his second play, Bar sam svoj čovek.
His nouvelle Obmana Boga was translated to Spanish and Portuguese, his novels Partere and Šnit in Spanish and his play Nomadi to Catalan; his collections of stories was translated to Macedonian, Ukrainian, Slovenian and Hungarian. His works are included in Serbian or European prose anthologies in German, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian and Slovenian language. He is a member of Serbian and Catalan PEN centre and one of the founders of Srpsko književno društvo.

Published works

Novels

Dvadeset četiri zida Žega Šnit Parter Majčina ruka Prave Beograđanke Tuđine Roman o pijanstvima
  • ''Ostaci sveta''

Story collections

Tragači Mediterani Beograđanke Sve za lepotu
  • ''Granična stanja''

Nouvelle

  • ''Obmana Boga''

Essay collection

  • ''Kroz glavu''

Plays collection

  • ''Nomadi''

Plays

Nomadi
  • ''Bar sam svoj čovek''

Anthologies entered

  • The anthology of contemporary Eastern European literature in Polish .Odkud vítr vane, the anthology of contemporary Southeastern European short stories in Czech, Univerzita Karlova, Nakladatelství Karolinum, Praha 2016.Generacija 23, the anthology of contemporary ex-YU short stories, "Blic", Belgrade 2014.E-szerelem, the anthology of contemporary Serbian literature in Hungarian, Forum Könzvkiadó, Újvidek 2012.Hotel Europa – the anthology of European contemporary essays and stories in German, Wunderhorn, Heidelberg, 2012. Der Engel und der rote Hund, the anthology of Serbian contemporary short stories in German, Noack & Block, Berlin, 2011.
  • Selection of the Serbian contemporary literature in German, "Neue Rundschau", Frankfurt, 3/2010.Tragische Intensität Europas, Das Schreibheft 71, Essen, 2008, a panoramic view of a Serbian literature through the reception of Peter Handke.
  • The selection of the contemporary Balkans Literature in Ukrainian Ztracen v samoobsluze - the anthology of the Serbian contemporary short stories in Czech, IP Bělehrad, 2007.Casablanca serba – anthology of the Serbian short stories in Italian, Feltrinelli, Milano, 2003.Bizarni raskazi – the anthology of the Serbian contemporary short stories in Macedonian, ed. Tatjana Rosić, Magor, Skopje, Macedonia, 2003.YU Blok – anthology of ex-Yugoslavia's contemporary literature in Slovenian, Apokalipsa, Ljubljana, Slovenia, No 51-52, 2002.
  • The selection of the Serbian Prose in Hungarian, ed. S. Ilć, Orbis Kanisza, 1/2-2000

Awards

  • Andrić Prize
  • Award of the city of Belgrade "Stefan despot Lazarević
  • Award "Zlatni beočug"
  • Károly Szirmai Serbian-Hungarian prize
  • Borislav Pekić Fund award
  • Desimir Tešić prize
  • Tronoški rodoslov prize
  • The Stevan Pešić prize
  • Solaris prize
  • Neki rok prize
  • Vodič za život prize, the first winner