On October 3rd, at 7:00 p.m., at at theYouth Cultural Center"Frosina" cinema, come to a conversation with authors Miljenko Jergović (Croatia/BiH) and Lidija Dimkovska (Macedonia).
We will not be wrong if we say that Miljenko Jergović is probably the most resounding author's name from the areas of former Yugoslavia. He was born in Sarajevo, which he never left, although he moved to Zagreb in 1993. It is one of the few literary oases in which the dream of community lives. Even in the most difficult times, Jergović rose from the ashes of the Balkans as a fortress of reason, as a voice from the future. Although metaphors are an inescapable part of his work, he is both human and author anchored in the present moment.
On the other hand, Dimkovska is also the author of nomadism, unmooredness, self-questioning and middle-classness. An author who always looks critically at the space and circumstances of her home, wherever it is. She was born in Skopje, Bucharest gives her life and writing breadth, and Ljubljana human love. As in the past, so in the latest novel, she remains interested in the themes of home, belonging, uprootedness, identity.
Jergović and Dimkovska are authors who have never sat side by side at a literary feast, but whose creations are so amenable to it, that it seems really strange why it hasn't happened before. “BookStar” fans will have this exclusive opportunity.
The event will be moderated by Aleksandar Madjarovski and Biljana Crvenkovska.
