ALEX VASIES: KROKODIL’S WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE IN THE MONTH OF JULY

03 Jul ALEX VASIES: KROKODIL’S WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE IN THE MONTH OF JULY

In the month of July KROKODIL’s 102nd Writer-In-Residence will be poet Alex Văsieș from Romania, who came to Belgrade thanks to the Reading Balkans project.

Alex Văsieș was born in 1993, in Bistrița. His first collection of poems, head butt was published in 2012 by Casa de Pariuri Literare. In 2016, he published two volumes: The Installation (Cartea Românească), for which he received the “Young Poet of the Year 2016 Award” and Oana Văsieș (Charmides). Selections of his poems were translated to German, English, Greek, Hungarian and Italian. He has translated several books (written by authors such as Alice Notley, Chuck
Palahniuk, Tom Hanks, Neil Gaiman or Graeme Macrae Burnet). He is the lead editor of OMG publishing house and an associate editor of Z9 Magazine. Alex’s stay in Belgrade is supported by the Creative Europe programme and Traduki.