06 May ULYSSES’ SHELTER 3 2024/2025 – SELECTED PARTICIPANTS
Candidates from Serbia who have been selected to take part in the 2024/2025 Ulysses’ Shelter 3 residency programme are Višnja Begović and Đorđe Božović. Congratulations!
Višnja Begović (Belgrade, 1995) earned her BM in Vocal Performance from Berklee College of Music in Boston, and her MA in Arts Administration from Baruch College in New York City. Her poems can be found in online magazines and journals, as well as several printed collections featuring contemporary poets of the ex-Yugoslav region. Her first poetry book “Jet-lag” (PPM Enklava) was published in 2023.
Đorđe Božović was born in Titovo Užice, SFR Yugoslavia, not long before both of those toponyms ceased to exist. He lectures in theoretical and Balkan linguistics at the University of Belgrade, while also actively translating from the languages he does research into and critically writing about the process. He has translated at least one piece from each genre of contemporary literature from Albanian – novels, short stories, poetry, essays and drama. His most recent translations are an autobiographical Bildungsroman “1997” by the Albanian-Canadian journalist and activist Kristi Pinderi (Belgrade: Rebel Readers, 2023) and a thematically related short stories collection from across the border, “Night bus” by the Macedonian author Stefan Alijevikj (Novi Sad: Kulturanova, 2023), which is included in the current “Štefica Cvek” literary selection.
ULYSSES’ SHELTER: BUILDING LITERARY RESIDENCIES NETWORK is the third stage of a project co-funded by the European Union under the Creative Europe programme 2021-2027. The network of literary residencies has now been extended to eight European countries: Czech Republic, Croatia, Greece, Malta, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain and Wales in the United Kingdom, and collaborates with many institutions and NGOs in each participating country.
The residency programme addresses the international dimension as its priority by giving emerging authors the opportunity to work, perform and present themselves in different European locations. Each residency will be accompanied by a diverse supporting programme consisting of literature-related activities aimed at specific (local) target groups, such as taking part in literary readings, workshops, festivals and / or other literary-related activities.
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