Ovid Prize (Ovidius Prize)
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Ognjen Spahić
オグニェン・スパヒッチ
Ognjen Spahic
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1977-01-01 （Titograd (now Podgorica), Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia）
- Nationality
- Montenegrin
- Languages
- Serbian, Montenegrin
- Residence History
- Podgorica (formerly Titograd)
Career
- Occupations
- novelist, short-story writer
- Active Years
- 2001-
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Meša Selimović Prize | Hansen's Children | — | Meša Selimović Prize committee | 受賞 |
| 2011 | Ovid Festival Prize | — | — | Ovid Festival | 受賞 |
| 2014 | European Union Prize for Literature | Puna glava radosti | — | European Union (EU) | 受賞 |
Meša Selimović Prize
2005
Work:
Hansen's Children
Organization:
Meša Selimović Prize committee
Result:
受賞
Ovid Festival Prize
2011
Organization:
Ovid Festival
Result:
受賞
European Union Prize for Literature
2014
Work:
Puna glava radosti
Organization:
European Union (EU)
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
European Union Prize for Literature
1 appearances
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Edition 6 (2014) Winner
Works
Major Works
Hansen's Children
2004 novelA novel focusing on an isolated suburban community and interpersonal tensions, exploring illness, alienation, life and death amid surveillance and indifference.
alienationillnessfamily breakdown
Translations
- French
- Italian
- Slovenian
- Romanian
- Hungarian
- Macedonian
- Arabic
- English
Winter Search
2007 short story collectionA collection of short stories exploring loneliness and small hopes of various characters, assembling fragments of uneasy everyday life and subtle emotion.
lonelinesseveryday unease
All That
2001 short story collectionDebut short story collection characterized by tensions in human relationships and fragmentary depictions of contemporary society.
human relationshipsurban fragments
Puna glava radosti
2013 short/novellaWinner of the EU Prize for Literature; a work (collection or novella) depicting joy and anxiety and the wavering of individual interior lives.
inner psychologyjoy and anxiety
Bibliography
- Sve to (All That). Ulcinj: Plima, 2001.
- Hansenova djeca (Hansen's Children). Zagreb: Durieux, 2004.
- Zimska potraga (Winter Search). Zagreb: Durieux, 2007.
- Hansen's Children (English translation). London: Istros Books, 2011 (English edition also cited as 2012).
Translations of Works
- Hansen's Children — French translation
- Hansen's Children — Italian translation
- Hansen's Children — Slovenian translation
- Hansen's Children — Romanian translation
- Hansen's Children — Hungarian translation
- Hansen's Children — Macedonian translation
- Hansen's Children — Arabic translation
- Hansen's Children — English translation
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- concise, restrained proserealist focus on details of contemporary life
- Recurring Motifs
- alienation and isolationillness and the bodyfamily breakdown
Legacy
Spahić is one of Montenegro's notable contemporary writers; his critically acclaimed novel Hansen's Children brought him international attention. He has been translated and awarded across Europe, and is seen as an important voice in contemporary Balkan literature.
Trivia
- Hansen's Children has been translated into French, Italian, Slovenian, Romanian, Hungarian, Macedonian, Arabic and English.
- He was a writing resident at the University of Iowa's International Writing Program in 2007.
- A short story was included in the Best European Fiction 2011 anthology.