Bojan Krivokapić | Artists in Residence | Kamov Residency

Bojan Krivokapić

→ www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2015/01/06/translation-tuesday-a-fistful-of-walnuts-by-bojan-krivokapic/#more-4883

Bojan Krivokapić (1985), published a book of short stories Trči Lilit, zapinju demoni (Kikinda, 2013)and a collection of gemischt-poetry Žoharov let (Stolac, 2014). A bilingual edition of hisfirst book, with translation into Italian by Vanesa Begić - Corri Lilit, i demoni inciampano, was published in 2014 in the edition of the City Library Pazin – House for Writers / Hiže od besid / Casa degli scrittori. The third edition of the book Trči Lilit, zapinju demoni, was published as an e-book by Literary workshops Rašić (Belgrade, 2015). He won the prize for fiction: Ulaznica (Zrenjanin, 2011), Duro Đukanov (Kikinda, 2012) and Edo Budiša (Pazin, 2014), and the prize Mak Dizdar for collection of poetry (Stolac, 2013). 

He is the editor of collections of literary texts: Radovi u Kući (Novi Sad, 2012), PitchWise (Sarajevo, 2012), Na ulici gaze bose ljude (Novi Sad, 2013) and Poučak o nizovima: čitanka (Novi Sad, 2014) i Sanjatorijum (Novi Sad, 2015). He was the reviewer of the book from Ivana Inđin Utišani glasovi – nezavisna pozorišna i performerska feministička scena u Novom Sadu od 1989. do 1999. godine (Novi Sad, 2012) and a monograph from Art Clinic Eutanazija 2009-2011 (Novi Sad, 2012). His literary texts have been published in various collections, anthologies and magazines throughout the former Yugoslavia:  Lapis Histriae (2010, 2012, 2014), Zarez, Odjek, Sveske, Idiot, Novi Ka/Os, Strane and others. He has participated in several literary events: Literary Festival Young rhymes (Ljubljana), Poetic Encounters Forest poets (Butori near Grožnjan in Istria), Short Story Festival Kikinda-Short (Kikinda and Belgrade), Literary Festival First Prozac at the top of the tongue (Zagreb), Literary Festival Polygon (Mostar) and others. 

His literary texts have been translated into Italian, German, Albanian, Swedish, Hungarian and English. He graduated Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad and was involved in anthropological theater in the Kamernom pozorištu muzike Ogledalo. He leads creative writing workshops in the Youth Center CK13 in Novi Sad where he currently lives and works.

01.-31.05.2016.

During the residency, the author will continue working on the already started novel that examines the phenomena of exclusion due to unrootedness and uprootedness in language and culture, that is, in the dominant context and dominant discourse. The novel will not have a classical form nor a linear flow. It will be a kind of a patchwork, collage made of small and large stories, composed and combined in such a way to provide the peculiarity to the entire text. The author will combine passages of fiction, autobiographical passages, as well as documentary material that will complement the prose whole.

The story goes back three generations ago and speaks through characters of old women, grandmas - one who is a settler in Vojvodina, the other who did not want to leave Montenegro, the third, who spent a lifetime in Germany as a gastarbeiter, and was born in Croatia, but then decided to return to Yugoslavia (which no longer exists for already more then twenty years) to die there. These are the three dominant voices, which narrate in different standards (Serbian, Croatian, Montenegrin) and dialects, and through this polyphony speak of poverty, of being lost, the burden of traditional gender roles and relations, both in the family and in the wider context. Along with the dominant voices, the prose will cyclically repeat autobiographical overtones of the story that introduce the memory of the end of the eighties, the author's family diversity, the months spent in Mošćenička Draga ...
So this is a kind of fiction about the ground slipping beneath the feet, about the trauma, the quiet lives on the peripheries and beyond.

Literary evening with Bojan Krivokapić

On Thursday, May 12 at 20 pm in Antikvarijat Ex Libris, Riva Boduli 3b, a literary evening will be held where Bojan will present his current work, in conversation with the writer Željka Horvat Čeč, with an emphasis on the novel he is currently writing during his residency. The talk will be held in Croatian.

City library Pazin / Writers’ House - La Casa degli scrittori

→ kucazapisce.hr/

The Writer’s House is a new cultural institution of Pazin but also of Istria. The formation of the House has put the organisational foundation allowing future development  of new models and modalities of literary life in Istria and Croatia. This is an essential step forward in the development of the “infrastructure” of the Croatian literary space, but what’s more, it represents the opening of this space to international cooperation and dialogue.

The House is located at Buraj, the historical part of the town which has been protected as a cultural monument. The attraction of this position is emphasized by the closeness of the medieval Castle and the Pazin Gorge right beneath it. A ruinous building owned by the Town of Pazin was renovated  by investing joint funds of the Region of Istria and the Town of Pazin. Works on the House commenced in 2007 and were completed in November 2009 when the opening ceremony took place. It consists of the ground floor which is a public space (literary evenings, lectures and similar) and a studio flat on the first floor intended for accommodation of guests. On the occasion of the opening ceremony the House hosted the writer Robert Perišić who was the guest on the first literary evening. After him the House hosted Maja Vidmar, Zoltán Medve, Milan Rakovac, Renato Baretić, Olja Savičević Ivančević, Sanja Lovrenčić and others.

Ever since its opening, the Writers’ House has been intended to entertain people dedicated to literary work in general, from authors, prosaists, poets and playwrights to translators, theoreticians, literary historians, publicists or literary scientists. The Work Programme provides for visits of more recent names, known to the Croatian public, to attract the audience to their   public reading or conversations. The objective is to host also less known but prized writers. It must be emphasized that the intention is to open the Writers’ House Work Programme to authors coming from the wider region, the Balkans, the Mediterranean and Central Europe, joining in this way the city of literature network. Scholarship programmes are intended to host foreign authors, but also to encourage Croatian authors to participate in similar programmes and projects in the region.