Transnational Series: Monika Herceg

Join the for an in-store event with poet Monika Herceg to discuss and honor the release of .

"Herceg writes about a history that no longer belongs to the victors, and about beauty that cannot fit into the confines we previously knew." —Olga Tokarczuk, Nobel Laureate

In Croatian, lovostaj means “closed season”—a time during the year when hunting is prohibited. Animals that are hunted by humans are allowed to relax during this time of year, not having to live in fear of being shot. The poems gathered in this award-winning collection by Monika Herceg use this symbolism to explore new ways to express the horrors women the world over have been, and are continually, forced to deal with in a painfully patriarchal world.

Monika Herceg is a poet, playwright, essayist, feminist, activist, and editor at Fraktura Publishing. She is the author of three poetry books: Initial Coordinates, Closed Season, and The Time Before the Tongue. She has received many prestigious national and international awards, including Goran za mlade pjesnike, Kvirin, Fran Galovic, Slavic, Mostovi Struge, Na vrh jezika, Biber, Zvonko Milkovic, Lapis Histriae, and the European Poet of Freedom Award in 2024. A physicist by profession, she spent her childhood in the village of Pecki near Petrinja. A mother of two, she lives and works in Zagreb.

Translator Marina Veverec is a student of literary translation at the University of Zadar, Croatia. Her English-language translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Asymptote, Harvard Review, and Words Without Borders, among others. She also translated Initial Coordinates, Monika Herceg’s first book of poetry to appear in English.

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