PhD Candidate of the Faculty of Philology Tijana Rakočević Awarded a Scholarship by Vienna’s Museums Quartier




PhD Candidate of the Faculty of Philology Tijana Rakočević Awarded a Scholarship by Vienna’s Museums Quartier

PhD candidate of the Faculty of Philology at the University of Montenegro, Tijana Rakočević, has been awarded the prestigious literary scholarship of the MQ Writer-in-Residence program, organized in cooperation between Vienna’s Museums Quartier and the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs (BMEIA).

Launched in 2010, the program offers writers a two-month stay in a studio within the Museums Quartier – one of the largest art and cultural complexes in the world. During the residency, scholarship holders have the opportunity to develop their literary projects, get to know the Austrian art and literary scene, and present their work to audiences in Vienna.

The Museums Quartier, located in the very heart of Vienna, encompasses more than 50 cultural institutions across 90,000 square meters, and its residency program annually hosts around 60 international artists from various disciplines. One of the key goals of the initiative is to enrich Vienna’s cultural landscape with new perspectives and to encourage artistic exchange. Thanks to this opportunity, Tijana Rakočević will stay in Vienna in November and December 2026, working on her new poetry collection.

Tijana Rakočević was born in 1994 in Podgorica. She is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Philology in Nikšić. She has published the poetry collection Sve blistavi kvanti (All Shining Quanta) and the short story collection Intimus, while her play Admiral is in preparation. She is the recipient of the Central European Initiative Award for Emerging Writers; the Montenegrin National Theatre awarded her the most significant biennial prize for a dramatic text in Montenegro; she also won second prize in the competition for the best story of the Euro-Mediterranean region A Sea of Words (European Institute of the Mediterranean, Barcelona), as well as the Award for the Best Young Scientist in Montenegro (CANU). She has received the award for the best short story in Montenegro and the first prize in the Goethe Institute (Zagreb) competition for the best poem, and she is also the author of the best queer story in the region. Her short story My Fingers Itched is currently being adapted into a film (directed by Andro Martinović), supported by the Croatian Audio-visual Centre and the Film Centre of Montenegro. She is a delegate of the Youth Committee of PEN International.

 

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