Ethnic, political, social, but also personal struggles in the works of a few Balkan authors were the central themes of the so-called \"Balkan (K)nights\", which took place last night in \"Laboratorium\" within the festival for European literature \"Bookstar\".<\/p>\n
The conversation with the authors Kristian Novak from Croatia, Rumena Bu\u017earovska from North Macedonia, Faruk \u0160ehi\u0107 from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Igor Marojevi\u0107 from Serbia, was led by Vladimir Jankovski.<\/p>\n
The authors addressed topics such as the trauma resulting from the Yugoslav wars, while it also moves through the modern \"war\" between male and female narrative voices, critically considering gender dynamics in society, highlighting the ongoing struggle between traditional expectations and modern social perspectives, as well as battles with stereotypes. The works of these authors present a complex narrative that intertwines historical principles with contemporary gender debates, providing a multifaced view of the answer of ex-youth literature and the echoes of war and gender.
\nBosnia and Herzegovina\u2019s writer and journalist Faruk \u0160ehi\u0107 was a member of the fifth corps of the BH Army in the period 1992-1995. He was also seriously wounded once. He finished the war with the rank of lieutenant and was awarded for his skills. Afterwards he devoted himself to literature during the war. He writes poetry, prose, essays, art and literary criticism. The first published work is \"Poems in the making\" in which the war appears as the main motif. He transferred the lived experiences of the war to the collection of short stories \"Under Pressure\". This work, as well as \"Hit Depot\" and \"Transsarajevo\" acquired a cult status among the readership and everything issued in multiple editions.
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\nThe Croatian writer, on the other hand, Kristian Novak, believes that there should not be no imperative in literature, and that everyone should write about what they want to write.
\n- I'm interested in the affairs of the individual, it's all about perception, not me they are interested in extremely good or extremely bad characters. I love them the characters who change, who undergo a transformation, who from a coward become a brave man. I'm interested in the man who makes a sacrifice and turns into something different from what he was until then - Novak said.
\nSerbian writer and translator Igor Marojevi\u0107 pointed out that the reader's the audience very often wants narratives that have a happy ending, but he can't to write about it.
\n- I prefer to write about negative poetics. And people love bestsellers, identify with them. I call it the terror of positivism. The people want a happy ending, to be given something positive. Thematically, I am not interested in that - said Marojevi\u0107.\nMarojevi\u0107 deals with topics for endangered minorities, that is, individuals who are faced with the aggressive society. His works have been translated into seventeen languages. He published the \"Belgrade Book of Fridays\" and is also the author of the pentology \"Ethnofiction\" of which four parts have been produced so far. His work \"Nomads\", original written in Spanish, it is performed in Spain in the production of the \"Theatrical Barcelona Institute\" and in the Belgrade Drama Theater. \"Remnants of the World\" is the most awarded novel in Serbian literature of the 21st century.
\nJankovski also started the topic of creating a dialect, which is very often present the Croatian author Kristian Novak.
\n- You can't have a character from the village and for him to speak hypercorrectly, in the standard language. Characters should speak naturally, as people do in real life. I use the sociolects I insert to capture an emotion, I use the standard language to express my thoughts - emphasized Novak.
\nMacedonian writer Rumena Bu\u017earovska also pointed out that it is a lot important to write in dialect.<\/p>\n
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\nShe pointed out that although she is aware that the book \"My Husband\" is her hit, still there are other much dearer books he has written such as \u201cI'm Not Going Anywhere\u201d.<\/p>\n
Regarding the question of how she is perceived when she visits the world as a writer from the Balkans, Bu\u017earovska says that although everyone sees her differently, what she is what they all have in common is that they perceive her as coming from a country that has passed through war.
\n- Outside the country, they perceive me differently everywhere. But there is one thing that is common to all: Everyone puts Macedonia in the war basket. Mostly when talking to me, they talk about it. If they don't tell me about that, then they tell me about ajvar, peppers, Gevgelija, nationalism. In America, they have no idea where I'm from, they think that I am from Europe and when I say that I am from Macedonia, they think that I\u2019m forcing that. In Europe, on the other hand, they see me as someone who comes from a country that cannot enter in the European Union. In the Balkans, however, it happened once in my honor at a cocktail party to serve kebabs with beans and they played \"\u010cukni vo drvo\" and \"Skopje\" from \"Leb I Sol\". Sometimes I know how to make fun of them. I do not feel that I am in an inferior position for although we come from a country with a language of few speakers, we invested many things in us - said Bu\u017earovska.
\nThe second evening concluded with a literary stand-up performance by Marjan Georgievski, a during the day, a literary reading \"Transformation(s)\"\/\"The metamorphosis\", at which several domestic and foreign authors presented themselves, author Paola Peretti from Italy will hold a creative workshop, and a podcast with Kristian Novak from Croatia and J\u00f3n Kalman Stef\u00e1nsson from Iceland, was held by Du\u0161ko Krstevski.
\nThe festival is held under the slogan \"The Metamorphosis\" and is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of North Macedonia, the literary network Traduki, EU with YOU, the Embassy of the Czech Republic and Republic of Italy, the Cultural and Information Center of the Republic of Bulgaria in Skopje, the Italian Institute of Culture in Belgrade, the Icelandic Literary Center and the \"Cam\u00f5es\" Language and Cooperation Institute. The media sponsor is the Macedonian Radio Television. The visual identity is the authorship of Maja Pla\u010dkoska, who also produced the festival video.<\/p>\n
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October 2, 2024, Skopje - Today awaits us the most fulfilled day from the program of the annual \"BookStar\" Festival, including the awarding ceremony of Iceland's J\u00f3n Kalman Stef\u00e1nsson BookStar 2024 and the \u010calgija Sound\nSystem concert for the occasion of the two anniversaries - 10 years of \"Bookstar\" and 25 years of \"Antolog\"! The day will start with \"Literary opening<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vesti","category-vesti-2024","category-20","category-22","description-off"],"yoast_head":"\n