PhD student of the Faculty of Philosophy Wins the Regional Call of the Goethe-Institut




PhD student of the Faculty of Philosophy Wins the Regional Call of the Goethe-Institut

PhD student of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Montenegro Tijana Rakočević has won the first award at the regional call of the Goethe Institute for the poem on the topic of drinking water.

The call was a part of the project „Thirsty City“, which is conducted in cooperation with the platform 1POSTOZAGRAD.  The poem by Tijana Rakočević stood out among 72 poems of authors coming from several countries.

The main condition of the call was direct or indirect mention of drinking water or reference to it in the poem.

- The poem by Tijana Rakočević „ They come to Flood Us “represents a powerful ode to water.  The thought that water will outlive mankind, expressed already in the first verse, develops superiorly through impressive poetic images until the last, equally powerful verse. A thesis set in such a manner frees water from colonizing human perspective and elevates it to something ancient, primordial, much more powerful and more important than the man, whereby the man is subtly, but not less powerfully ecologically warned, the jury elaboration states.

PhD student at the Faculty of Philology in Nikšić (Department for Montenegrin Language and South-Slav Languages), Tijana Rakočević has published a book of poetry „All the Glittering Quanta “, and her works – essays, reviews, poems and stories have been translated to several world languages or can be found in the original in regional literary periodicals. She is a member of the Journal for Literature and Culture „Fokalizator“. In 2019 she received the award for the best short story in Montenegro - Podgorica art festival, the best Bihor story 2020, the best queer story 2021 and the Award of the Ministry of Culture for the Best Short Story submitted to the IPA project HAMLET.  She is a member of Montenegrin PEN Centre.

Denis Peričić (Varaždin) received the second award for the poem „O...“, while the third award went to Darko Brkulj (Makarska, Sweden) for the poem „We Said Only Coffee “

In addition to the awards, the poems will be published on the Internet page of Goethe-Institut Kroatien in German and in BHCS languages.

The concept creator of the project “Thirsty City“, and the author of the programme which is being conducted in cooperation with the platform 1POSTOZAGRAD is Saša Šimpraga, while the Town Library Zadar is a partner on the project. The project is co-funded by the Fund for Fine Arts of Goethe Institut.

Jury members for this call were ‒ Magdalena Došen, Aleksandar Hut Kano (by video-link from London) and Martina Vidaić, Saša Šimpraga as the author of the programme „Thirsty City“.

 

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