Jasmina Topić
Jasmina Topić was born in 1977 in Pančevo. She writes poetry and literary reviews. Her published collections are Sunflowers: Portrait for the day, Pension Metamorphosis, Romanticism and The quiet renewal of the summer. She participated in the first Biennale of young artists from Europe and Mediterranean in 2003, was selected for the CEI fellowship awarded by the Vilenica Festival in 2006 and for the KulturKontakt residency programme in 2008. Jasmina Topić is the editor of Manuscripts, an anthology of poetry and short stories by young authors from the former Yugoslavia, and co-editor of arts magazine Kvartal.
News
Word Express writer Ognjen Spahić from Montenegro will be visiting London for events with his UK publisher, Istros Books, from the 15th - 18th of May. See the Istros Books website for more details.
This year's Prague Book Fair - Svet Knihy - is focusing on literature the Black Sea region. Word Express writers Ivan Hristov (Bulgaria), Zaza Koshkadze (Georgia) and Pelin Özer (Turkey) will talk about their Balkan literary journey and read their work at the gala evening. Go to the Literature Across Frontiers website for more details.
Word Express interviews Georgian poet Zaza Koshkadze, and talks to Owen Martell and Milan Dobricic about translating and publishing Owen's novel into Serbian after meeting on the Word Express journey. All on the Travel Blog.