Book Launch: Vila Fazanka by Bojan Krivokapić

Welcome to the top November cultural event, hosted by the Serbian club and cultural center KRUG, here in Brussels. In cooperation with the European Union Prize for Literature, we cordially invite you to the book launch of Vila Fazanka - a novel by Bojan Krivokapić - this year's nominee from Serbia.

Bojan is the guest of KRUG, but there will be more creatives in the house! Bilja Stajić and Uroš Miloradović from Vienna, the students of Bojan's creative writing course and authors will be weaving prose and poems with Bojan on the stage.

As the hosts, we will add magic to this evening with a superb duet - Mika Kostić and Branko Jovanović, who are top musicians, singers, and writers themselves.
This will be an unforgettable evening of literature, music, and arts!

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The Program for the evening:

19:15 Introducing the book "Vila Fazanka" - conversation with the author Bojan Krivokokapić

20:00 Open Mic: Bojan-Bilja-Uroš

20:30 Acoustic Dreams: Mika & Branko live, music performance

Event Languages: Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian

Details:

Date: Friday, November 22, 2024

Time: 19:00h

Address: GC Elzenhof, Troon 34, 1050, Elzenhof

Magnolia Hall, second floor (elevator access, follow the signs)

Entry is free, but the number of seats is limited, registration is mandatory, here on Eventbrite or via email - [email protected]

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About Bojan Krivokapić:

Bojan Krivokapić has published the books: "Run Lilit, Demons are stuck" (short stories, 2013), Žohar's flight (poetry, 2014), "Spring is on the way" (novel, 2017), "The Boy's Nest" (poetry, 2019) and "Vila Fazanka" (novel, 2023).

The winner of the prize for prose: Ulaznica (Zrenjanin, 2011), Đura Đukanov (Kikinda, 2012), Edo Budiša (Pazin, 2014), Lapis Histriae (Umag, 2021), Biber (Belgrade – Sarajevo, 2021), Milutin Uskoković (Užice , 2021), Laza K. Lazarević (Šabac, 2022), as well as Mak Dizdar awards for poetry collection (Stolac, 2013). In 2018, he received the Mirko Kovač Award for the best work of a young author in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Montenegro for the novel "Spring is getting ready for the road".

The novel "Vila Fazanka" was shortlisted for the NIN award, a finalist for the Vitalova and Dušan Vasiljev awards, as well as a nomination for the European Prize for Literature. He is currently nominated for the Regional Literary Awards "Štefica Cvek" and "Meša Selimović".

His literary texts have been translated into Italian, German, Hungarian, Albanian, English, Slovenian and Macedonian. He graduated from the Department of Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad. He leads literary workshops. He lives in Novi Sad. Official website: bojankrivokapic.com

About the novel Villa Fazanka:

After returning from abroad, where she spent almost her entire working life, Ana, the main character of this novel, buys an apartment "with a view of the Danube and the Army House". She tries to settle in, but the birds leave her

the past does not give peace. One day in August, he goes north of the plain to Villa Fazanka to look after his best friend's house and dog. It is the beginning of a cluster of stories, meetings, and relationships of some seemingly ordinary,

but also very unusual characters. There is also Granda, a Hungarian sausage gog, who wags her tail tirelessly.

This is a novel about a peaceful plain that swells like a subcutaneous pimple, from which the voices of the past and the former occupants of the stooped houses do not allow the veil of oblivion to cover them with their polyphony. Villa

Fazanka, in which the coastal and plain environments flow into each other, is a novel about possible loves and a world in which losses do not have to drag us to the bottom, but open up new insights and lead us to peace.

Host or Publisher Serbian Club KRUG