New announcement - 03.03.2019 20:09

Svetlana Kalezic Radonjic was born in Podgorica (Montenegro) in 1980. She has PhD in Philology, and she is a literary critic and essayist. A poet by vocation, she has been publishing her poetry since the age of 15.

She completed her studies of Serbian language and literature (1998 - 2002) at the Faculty of Philosophy in Nikšić with average grade of 9.92 (out of 10), as well as postgraduate studies (2002 - 2004) at the same faculty with 9.86 average. She wrote her Masters thesis entitled The Art of Word of Ivana Brlić – Mažuranić and received her Degree at the University of Montenegro (2006). Three years later she completed her PhD work, Typology of Montenegrin Novel for Children and Youth  (1953-1978) and received her Degree at the University of Serbia.

Since February 2003 she has been working as teaching assistant at the Faculty of Philosophy in Nikšić covering six different subjects (Literature of Middle Age, Enlightenment and Romanticism, Realism, Special course „Stefan Mitrov Ljubisa and Simo Matavulj“, Literature of first half of XX century, and Literature for Children and Youth). A decade later (2013) she became Assistant professor at University of Montenegro teaching Literature for Children and Youth at three departments (Department for Serbian Language and South Slavic Literatures, Department for Education of Teachers, Department for Pre-school Education).

During her studies, she won the Award of University of Montenegro as the best student of Montenegro in field of humanities for two years in a row (2000, 2001). In additon, she was also awarded with „Brankova nagrada“ by Matica srpska for the best Final Exam in 2002. She also won the award "Vuk Karadžić" for the best literature essay in 2005. In the same time she began to publish her articles and cooperate with numerous literature magazines and journals (Književne novine, Bagdala, Ovdje, Mostovi...). She has participated at numerous conferences and literary meetings both nationally and internationally. During summer 2015 she was fellow of the International Youth Library in Munich (2015).

She was also engaged as editor for poetry in publishing house Gligorije Dijak in Podgorica, because of her experience as poet. For the same reason she has been chosen many times to be a member of commities and juries for various literary awards (Meša Selimović (2008), Stjepan Mitrov Ljubisa (2008), Limske veceri poezije (2005-2014), Risto Ratkovic 2013). Since 2013 she is a Montenegrin selector for the award „Little prince“, the most important award for children’s and youth literature in ex-Yugoslavia. She has won numerous literary awards, some of which internationally. She has published seven books of poetry: Iz ugla ruže (1995), Cveće nedeljne samilosti (1997), Pozni dažd (1998), Zauzdati bezdan (2002), El manuscrito del silencio (in Spanish language 2006), Algebra naricanja (2008) and Uporedna gramatika stradanja i strasti (2009).

She is the author of numerous articles and papers in wide spectrum from Antique and Mediaeval to Modern literature, with a particular focus on authors that deal both with adult literature and literature for children and youth, as well as where they overlap, touch or bypass. She is also author of the study Umjetnost riječi Ivane Brlić-Mažuranić (2011).

During 2011-2013 she had been the Vice President of the Center of Young Scientists of Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, and during 2014-2016 she was the President of the Centre of the Academy. She is also member of Croatian Association of Researches in Children’s Literature (HIDK/ CARCL) and member of the European Network for Comparative Literary Studies (REELC/ ENCLS). She is the founder and the executive director of the Institute for Children’s and Youth Literature (Podgorica, 2014).