On Friday, July 26th, starting at 9PM, this year festival’s literary programme is to continue at the “Poets’ Square”. The guest will be a writer and essayist Petar Matović.
Petar Matović was born in Užice (Serbia) in 1978. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade- Department of Serbian with South Slavic Literatures. His literary canon includes poetry and essays while his poetry collections bear the following names: Chamber Pieces (1996), Where Do Beavers Come From (2013), From the Happy Republic (2017), Not Bread, but Morphine-Selected Poems (2019).
His became a part of all of the following magazines, periodicals and journals: “Polja” (the Serbian literary magazine), “Letopis Matice Srpske” (a Serbian literary periodical), “Koraci” (a magazine for literature, art and culture), “Beogradski književni časopis” (a journal for poetic research and activity), “Sarajevske sveske” (literary magazine), “Zarez” (a Croatian biweekly magazine for literature, culture and current affairs), “Književni magazin” (a Serbian periodical), Quorum (a Croatian periodical for literature), “Fragile”, “Portret”, “The Café Review”, “Fantom slobode” (a Croatian literary magazine).
His works are present in manifold anthologies while his songs were translated into many foreign languages. For his poetry he has received the “Treći trg” award. Furthermore, in 2018, his poetry collection From the Happy Republic brought him the prestigious award “Branko Miljković”.
The moderator for the evening is Danka Ivanović: a professor, poet, writer and a translator.
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