{"id":73732,"date":"2025-04-09T10:45:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T08:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/proglasen-dobitnik-nagrade-stefan-mitrov-ljubisa-festivala-grad-teatar-za-2024-2025-godinu\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T12:02:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T10:02:05","slug":"proglasen-dobitnik-nagrade-stefan-mitrov-ljubisa-festivala-grad-teatar-za-2024-2025-godinu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/proglasen-dobitnik-nagrade-stefan-mitrov-ljubisa-festivala-grad-teatar-za-2024-2025-godinu\/","title":{"rendered":"THE THEATRE CITY\u2019S \u201eSTEFAN MITROV LJUBI\u0160A\u201d AWARD WINNER FOR THE YEAR 2024\/2025 HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED"},"content":{"rendered":"

The \u201cStefan Mitrov Ljubi\u0161a\u201d award jury, presented by the \u201cTheatre City\u201d festival, whose members were Prof. Dr. Vesna Goldsworthy, Prof. Dr. Tatjana \u0110uri\u0161i\u0107, and Prof. Dr. Zoran Paunovi\u0107<\/strong> (as president), has unanimously decided that the award winner for the year 2024\/2025 is the writer Vladislav Bajac.<\/p>\n

The jury states the following:<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough he first entered the literary scene as a poet back in 1972, with poetry that clearly demonstrated the talent of its creator, Bajac would go on in the following decades to build his literary reputation primarily as a prose writer. In his body of narrative work, Eastern and Western cultural traditions, past and present, imagination and reality are intertwined together in an artistically fruitful way. From this harmonious convergence emerges a truly distinctive, powerful, and memorable artistic vision.\u201d<\/p>\n

After carefully analyzing each of Vladislav Bajac\u2019s works \u2013 from the widely acclaimed The Book of Bamboo<\/em> (1992), The Black Box<\/em> (1993), The Druid of Sindidun<\/em> (1998), Escape from Biography<\/em> (2001), Hamam Balkania<\/em> (2008), Chronicles of Doubt<\/em> (2016), to his most recent novel A Shot in the Void<\/em> (2024) \u2013 \u00a0the jury emphasizes the author\u2019s contribution to numerous universal themes that have shaped the challenges of history and the fate of humanity at the turn of the century, while also highlighting \u201cthe power of the art of storytelling.\u201d<\/p>\n

The jury also adds that \u201cnow, in the 21st<\/sup> century, Bajac\u2019s work \u2013 meanwhile translated into more than twenty languages, awarded many significant literary prizes, and widely embraced by readers across the region, Europe, and the world \u2013 not only resists the test of time with elegant ease, but with each passing year demonstrates its indestructible vitality and growing significance.\u201d<\/p>\n

In making its decision, the jury also considered Vladislav Bajac\u2019s continuous dedication and immeasurable contribution to cultural life (as a publisher, translator, and critical thinker). Congratulating the awardee, the jury concludes its explanation:<\/p>\n

\u201cTherefore, we express our sincere satisfaction that Vladislav Bajac now joins the distinguished group of literary creators who have received the \u2018Stefan Mitrov Ljubi\u0161a\u2019 award over the past three decades. We are confident that he will significantly contribute to the continued prestige of this internationally recognized and highly esteemed literary award, of which the \u2018Theatre City,\u2019 Budva, and Montenegro can rightfully be proud.\u201d<\/p>\n

The award will be presented to Vladislav Bajac during the literary program of the 39th<\/sup> \u201cTheatre City\u201d festival this year.<\/p>\n

Theatre City Press Office<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The \u201cStefan Mitrov Ljubi\u0161a\u201d award jury, presented by the \u201cTheatre City\u201d festival, whose members were Prof. Dr. Vesna Goldsworthy, Prof. Dr. Tatjana \u0110uri\u0161i\u0107, and Prof. Dr. Zoran Paunovi\u0107 (as president), has unanimously decided that the award winner for the year 2024\/2025 is the writer Vladislav Bajac. The jury states the following: \u201cAlthough he first entered…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":73728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73733,"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73732\/revisions\/73733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}