The publishing house Lijepa riječ presented ten books in the field of Contemporary Poetry and awarded annual prizes
Sarajevo, October 11, 2021
Yesterday, at the Sarajevo Book Fair, the publishing house Lijepa riječ presented ten books from the field of Contemporary Poetry, including the book Serious Conversations by the co-founder of the Association for Culture Kontrast, Umihana Krličević Omerović.
The reviewer dr. sc. Melida Travančić, who on this occasion said that Serious Conversations emotionally shook the confession within a world that is constantly collapsing and deforming. In this way, the poet, conditionally speaking, opens the door of her life and introduces herself to it, announcing her intimate space, and thus becomes public, talks about herself, about the people closest to her, about travel, death, God, about everything that surrounds and captures her attention. The pages are carefully printed, the poems strongly connected so that a coherent and uniform whole is built at the level of the whole book.
The book Serious Conversations was published in 2020, and is supported by the FBiH Publishing Foundation.
At this year’s Fair, the publishing house Lijepa riječ for the 20th time awarded annual prizes as a modest expression of respect and gratitude to the authors and their works. Annual award AUTHOR OF THE YEAR: Nurija Agić: BOSNIA IN EUROPEAN ENCYCLOPEDIAS, Jusuf Trebić: DESTRUCTION OF BOSNIA, Annual award BOOK OF THE YEAR Rifet Bahtijagić: IN THE STORM OF TIME, Melida Travančič: ENTRANCE INTO THE VOID, Annual Award FOR DEBUT NOVEL: Nefa Šabanović Karić: WHILE MOTHER REPAYS DEBTS, Andrej Rodinis: GLASS HOUSE, Annual award FOR TRANSLATION: Elvir Musić RUSTEM AND SUHRAB, Abdul Qasim Firdaussi Tusi (translated from Persian), Danica Nain Rudović for the translation of the book A DREAM HAS OPEN EYES, Rose Ausländer (translated from German).
This year, recognition for an individual/institution, which is occasionally awarded for excellence in the affirmation and popularization of BiH literature and culture was given to a prominent translator from our languages into German ASTRID PHILIPPSEN from Berlin.
