Senka Marić

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Senka Marić (born 1972) is a Bosnian writer. She is best known for her work as a poet and for her 2018 novel Kintsugi Tijela, which draws from the author's own experiences with breast cancer. Marić is also co-founder and editor-in-chief of the literary journal Strane.

Biography[]

Senka Marić was born in Mostar, a city in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1972.[1][2][3] She began writing poetry when she was eight years old.[4] After finishing secondary school, she studied theater education and comparative literature at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Mostar, and the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo.[1][2]

From 1991 to 1997, Marić fled the Bosnian War and lived in the United Kingdom, where she trained as a stylist at the Vidal Sassoon Academy in London.[1][5]

After the war, she returned to Mostar, where she now works as a poet, novelist, translator, and journal editor. She runs the online literary journal Strane, which she co-founded in 2014 with and .[1][3][5] Marić, who writes in Bosnian,[6] also translates others' writing from English[2]

Marić is a breast cancer survivor, and her work frequently deals with this experience.[4][5][7][8]

She has published three books of poetry: Odavde do nigdje ("From Here to Nowhere," 1997), To su samo riječi ("These Are Just Words," 2005), and Do smrti naredne ("Until the Next Death," 2016).[1][2][4][9][7] Her debut novel, Kintsugi Tijela, was published in 2018. It is based on the author's own experience with cancer, with the novel's narrator reexamining her childhood as she deals with illness and treatment. In 2019, it won the  [bs], a major literary award for novels published in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, and Serbia.[5][9][10] Kintsugi Tijela is in the process of being translated into English, under the title Body Kintsugi.[5][11]

Marić has also twice received the Zija Dizdarević short story award, the top prize for short fiction in the country, in 2000 and 2013.[1] Critics have counted Marić as part of the first generation of female writers in Bosnia and Herzegovina who are not considered outliers because of their gender.[12]

Selected works[]

  • Odavde do nigdje (poetry, 1997)
  • To su samo riječi (poetry, 2005)
  • Do smrti naredne (poetry, 2016)
  • Kintsugi Tijela (novel, 2018)

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Senka Maric". MuseumsQuartier Wien. November 2016. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
  2. ^ a b c d "It's Good". Spirit of Bosnia. 9 (2). April 2014. ISSN 1931-4957. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
  3. ^ a b Fargo Cole, Isabel (2019-07-22). "30 Jahre Mauerfall: Schriftsteller schauen auf das Leben in geteilten Städten". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). Retrieved 2021-04-07.
  4. ^ a b c "Do smrti naredne". Tacno.net (in Bosnian). 2017-03-25. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
  5. ^ a b c d e Mattingly, Stacy (2020-07-30). "A New Generation of Writers in Bosnia and Herzegovina Narrates Life Beyond War". Literary Hub. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
  6. ^ "Senka Marić". Traduki. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
  7. ^ a b Raljević, Selma (2017). "A brief herstory of living and dying in a collection of poems Until the Next Death by Senka Marić". Kultura (157): 34–48. doi:10.5937/kultura1757034R. ISSN 0023-5164.
  8. ^ Bergelj, Vesna Hrdlička (2021-03-27). "Rekonstrukcija dojk kot luksuz". RTVSLO.si (in Slovenian). Retrieved 2021-04-07.
  9. ^ a b "Senka Marić". Reading Balkans. 2020-07-22. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
  10. ^ Raljevic, Selma (January 2018). "Women's literary experiment of Body Kintsugi by Senka Marić". Kultura (162): 284–305. doi:10.5937/kultura1962284R.
  11. ^ Peligra, Cristina (2019-06-05). "THE TRANSLATOR'S (INTER)VIEW. MIRZA PURIC ON UNDER PRESSURE". Inpress Books. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
  12. ^ Schultermandl, Silvia; Rieser, Klaus (2021-03-17). Ethnicity and Kinship in North American and European Literatures. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-000-36312-8.
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