Attend this conversation that will be moderated by BU alumna Stacy Mattingly (MFA, 2011), who has already launched a collective of writers from this region who are engaged with the questions our project is considering as part of a collaboration, The Borders Project, serialized in the journalย EuropeNow.
With funding from the BU Arts Initiative and the Creative Writing Program. Co-sponsored by the BU Pardee School Initiative on Forced Migration and Human Trafficking and the literary journal AGNI. A book-signing will follow the event.
Faruk ล ehiฤ was born in 1970 in Bihaฤ, in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Literary critics have hailed him as the leader of the โmangled generationโ of writers born in 1970s Yugoslavia. His debut novel โQuiet Flows the Unaโ (Knjiga o Uni, 2011) received the Meลกa Selimoviฤ prize for the best novel published in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Croatia in 2011 and the EU Prize for Literature in 2013. His poetry and prose has been published in Asymptote, Absinthe, BODY literaure, Trafika Europa, and BBC World Service.
Mirza Puriฤ is a literary translator working from German and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian. He is a contributing editor ofย EuropeNowย and in-house translator for the Sarajevo Writersโ Workshop. From 2014 to 2017 he was an editor-at-large forย Asymptote. Next year Archipelago Books will release his co-translation, with Ellen Elias-Bursac, of Miljenko Jergovicโs story collectionย Inshallah, Madonna, Inshallah.
Co-sponsored by Archipelago Books, A Public Space, and InTranslation.