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Sonja Veselinović

ソニャ・ヴェセリノヴィッチ

Sonja Veselinović

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1981-12-09 (Novi Sad)
Nationality
Serbian
Languages
Serbian, German, French, English
Residence History
Novi Sad → Zrenjanin

Career

Occupations
Professor of comparative literature, Poet, Writer, Translator
Active Years
2007-2024
Affiliations
Polja (literary magazine) editorial staff
Influenced By
Marina Tsvetaeva, Danilo Kiš, Ivan V. Lalić

Education

University of Novi Sad
Faculty of Philosophy / Department of Comparative Literature
Degree: Magister
Period: ~2009
Year of Graduation: 2009
Country: Serbia
University of Novi Sad
Faculty of Philosophy / Department of Comparative Literature
Degree: PhD
Period: 2009-2014
Year of Graduation: 2014
Country: Serbia
Assistant professor (docent) since 2016

Awards

Isidora Sekulić Award
2013
Work: Krosfejd
Result: 受賞
Festival of Young Poets first prize
2007
Work: Poema preko
Result: 最優秀原稿賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Poema preko

2008 Poetry/Prose

Poetry about the way of individual being, narrator addresses Marina Tsvetaeva on identity, creativity, self-fulfillment. Fragmentary, intertextual, discursive text seeking limits of subjective representation.

IdentityCreativitySelf-fulfillmentLimits of subjective representation
Translations
  • Excerpt in Hungarian
  • Excerpt in German

Bibliography

  • Poema preko, Dom omladine, Zaječar 2008
  • Prevodilačka poetika Ivana V. Lalića, Akademska knjiga, Novi Sad 2012
  • Krosfejd, Kulturni centar Novog Sada, Novi Sad 2013
  • Kind und Jugendlicher in der Literatur und im Film Bosniens, Kroatiens und Serbiens, Kovač, Hamburg 2013
  • Recepcija, kanon, ciljna kultura: slika modernog angloameričkog pesništva u savremenoj srpskoj književnosti, Akademska knjiga, Novi Sad 2018

Translations by Author

  • Translations into Serbian of works by John Ashbery, Jean Giraudoux, Milan Kundera, Jacques Rancière

Style & Themes

Literary Style
FragmentaryIntertextualDiscursiveVivid imagery
Recurring Motifs
Longing for loveSelf-knowledgeIndividual authenticity

Legacy

Serbian professor of comparative literature, poet, and writer. Recipient of Isidora Sekulić Award.

Trivia

  • Maternal grandfather Laszlo Veselý was a Kapo in Bor
  • Grandma Sonja Nović was a combat veteran of Partisan brigade, born in Prijepolje