Laslo Blašković
Laslo Blašković ( Serbian - Cyrillic Ласло Блашковић ; born June 25, 1966 in Novi Sad , Yugoslavia ) is a Serbian writer and director of the Serbian National Library .
life and work
Blašković graduated from Sremski Karlovci in 1984 and graduated from the former Department of Yugoslav Literature and Serbo-Croatian Language at the Philosophical Faculty of Novi Sad University , which he graduated in 1989 and where he worked as a research assistant for another year . From 1992 to 2000 he was secretary of the Vojvodina Writers' Union , until 2007 editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Polja and since 2008 director of the Novi Sad cultural center. In 2015 he was appointed director of the Serbian National Library to succeed Svetlana Jančić. The author of novels , short stories , poems and essays has received several literary prizes in Serbia, including the Branko Ćopić Prize in 2005. His novel Madonna's Jewelry is so far in Slovak (2006), English (2015), Russian and Slovenian (2016 ) Translation published. Laslo Blašković has participated in numerous festivals, symposia and conferences at home and abroad, such as the Serbian Culture Week 2010 in Cairo and the International Book Festival 2018 in Budapest , in 2007 he was one of the organizers of the first and now renowned literature festival Prosefest and conceptual editor of the World Poetry Day 2007 in the Belgrade cultural center, in 2008 he came to Vienna as Artist in Residence from KulturKontakt Austria , in 2010 he moved to the Langenbroich House of the Böll Foundation and he took part in the Leipzig book fairs in 2010 and 2016. His stories Totenmaske , Der Erlöser and Das pale Feuer von Wien have been published in the Neue Rundschau (2010) and two anthologies (2011 and 2012). The writer has been a member of the Serbian PEN Center since 2004 .
Works
- Madonin nakit (Jewelry of the Madonna), Filip Višnjić Publishing House , Belgrade 2003, ISBN 86-7363-366-4 .
- Turnir grbavaca (The tournament of the hunchbacks ), Geopoetika, Belgrade 2007, ISBN 978-86-7666-124-4 .
- Priča o malaksalosti (Stories about Feeling Unwell), Arhipelag, Belgrade 2010, ISBN 978-86-86933-73-7 .
- The angel and the red dog - short prose from Serbia , ed. by Angela Richter , Edition Noack & Block, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86813-004-1 .
- Border traffic III: Departure - where to , ed. from KulturKontakt Austria, Drava Verlag , Klagenfurt 2012, ISBN 978-3-85435-683-7 .
literature
- Biography in: Ko je ko u Srbiji, Bibliofon, Belgrad 1996 ( WBIS Online )
Web links
- Laslo Blaskovic: "Short letters home", in: Buchkultur, No. 119-120 / 2008 ( Memento from June 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), p. 74.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography , website of the National Library, accessed December 7, 2018.
- ↑ Biography , KulturKontakt website, accessed December 7, 2018.
- ^ Annual report 2010 (p. 58), Heinrich Böll Foundation, accessed on December 7, 2018.
- ↑ ProseFest , official website, accessed December 7, 2018.
- ↑ Leipzig Book Fair 2010 (p. 20), German Society for Croatian Studies , accessed on December 7, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blašković, Laslo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Блашковић, Ласло (srS) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Serbian writer and director of the Serbian National Library |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Novi Sad , Yugoslavia |