Stevan Tontic
Stevan Tontić (born December 30, 1946 in Sanski Most ) is a Bosnian writer and translator .
Live and act
After finishing school he studied philosophy and sociology in Sarajevo . After the academic years he lived in Sarajevo and worked as a publishing editor. After the siege of Sarajevo began in 1992, he initially stayed in the city as a Serb , but left it in May 1993 and went into exile in Germany, where he remained until 2001. Then he returned to Sarajevo. In his work he deals with his experiences of war and exile.
Works (selection)
- Manuscript from Sarajevo , poems, country press, Weilerswist, 1998, ISBN 9783930137657
- Sunday in Berlin , autobiographical narrative, Landpresse Verlag (Ralf Liebe Verlag), Weilerswist, 2000, ISBN 9783930137749
- On behalf of the word. Texts from exile , text collection, Verlag Ralf Liebe, Weilerswist, 2004, ISBN 3935221398
- The daily end of the world , poems, Drava Verlag, Klagenfurt 2015, ISBN 9783854357568
Awards
- Horst Bienek Prize for Poetry , 2000
- Hilde Domin Prize for Literature in Exile , 2001
- Reiner Kunze Prize , 2019,
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.freitag.de/autoren/der-freitag/mein-feldzug-ist-meine-sprache
- ↑ Free Press of January 17, 2019
Web links
- Literature by and about Stevan Tontić in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tontic, Stevan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bosnian writer and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 30, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sanski Most |