International Novi Sad Literature Festival
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The International Novi Sad Literature Festival (Serbian: Međunarodni književni festival) was founded by the Association of Writers of Vojvodina
Association of Writers of Vojvodina
The Association of Writers of Vojvodina comprises around 490 members who write in all official languages used in Vojvodina. The majority of them write in Serbian, and a significant number in Hungarian.The Association has also about seventy literary translators among its members...

 ( Serbian: Društvo književnika Vojvodine) in 2006. The Festival is held in Novi Sad
Novi Sad
Novi Sad is the capital of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, and the administrative centre of the South Bačka District. The city is located in the southern part of Pannonian Plain on the Danube river....

 еvery year in August and September.

Featuring contemporary poets, novelist and critics, who represent and promote the contemporary literature, the Festival is 6 days full of literature. The Festival includes readings, performances, exhibitions and music. More than 200 writers from Serbia and abroad participated in the first three Festivals. The works of participants of the Festival are published in literary journal Zlatna greda. The winning author of the International Novi Sad Literature festival is awarded by having his or her winning book published in Serbian.

Events

The programme of the Festival includes afternoon and evening readings and discussions in various venues throughout the city (libraries, clubs, caffès, squers), as well as visiting other towns in Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

. The readings represent national literatures, groups of authors or single authors.

Main events are:
  • The evening reading on Trg mladenaca in the city centre, in front of the Poetry Gate
  • A symposium which is held each year to discuss important contemporary literary themes
  • A poetry slam
  • Two awarding ceremonies:
    • Branko’s Award Ceremony at Sremski Karlovci
      Sremski Karlovci
      Sremski Karlovci is a town and municipality in Serbia, in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, situated on the bank of the river Danube, 8 km from Novi Sad...

    • International Literary Award Of Novi Sad Ceremony on Trg mladenaca
  • Daily picnics in which participants may take a boat ride on the Danube
    Danube
    The Danube is a river in the Central Europe and the Europe's second longest river after the Volga. It is classified as an international waterway....

     from Novi Sad to Sremski Karlovci
    Sremski Karlovci
    Sremski Karlovci is a town and municipality in Serbia, in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, situated on the bank of the river Danube, 8 km from Novi Sad...

     and visit monasteries on Fruska Gora
    Fruška Gora
    Fruška Gora is a mountain in north Syrmia. Most part of the territory is located within Vojvodina, Serbia, but a smaller part on its western side overlaps the territory of Croatia...

    .

International participants

Author Country
Ben Okri
Ben Okri
Ben Okri OBE FRSL is a Nigerian poet and novelist. Okri has become the leading figure of his generation of Nigerian writers who have largely abandoned the social and historical themes of Chinua Achebe, and brought together modernist narrative strategies and Nigerian oral and literary...

 
Nigeria
Nigeria
Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...

John Hartley Williams
John Hartley Williams
John Hartley Williams is a British poet who was born in Cheshire and grew up in London. He studied at Nottingham University and later at the University of London. His poetry book Blues was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. He was a judge of the 2007 Poetry on the Lake poetry competition...

 
England
England
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Matthew Sweeney Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

Andrey Kurkov
Andrey Kurkov
Andrey Yuryevich Kurkov is a Ukrainian novelist who writes in Russian. He is the author of 13 novels and 5 books for children. His work is currently translated into 25 languages, including English, Japanese, French, Chinese, Swedish and Hebrew...

 
Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

Tone Hødnebø Norway
Norway
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Dieter M. Gräf Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

Christian Teissl Austria
Austria
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Philip Tew
Philip Tew
Professor Philip Tew is an English academic. A professor in English in the School of Arts at Brunel University , Tew is a literary critic and theorist in the field of contemporary and modern British fiction after 1945, and of various strands of critical or 'high' theory, particularly metarealism...

 
England
Matt Thorne
Matt Thorne
Matt Thorne is an English writer born in 1974 who has published seven novels. Thorne grew up in Bristol, England, and was educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University. Thorne's first book, Tourist, was published in 1998. The book is an attack on the negative effects of tourism on...

 
England
Tibor Fischer
Tibor Fischer
Tibor Fischer is a British novelist and short story writer. In 1993 he was selected by the influential literary magazine Granta as one of the 20 best young British writers....

 
England
Maja Dlgačeva Bulgaria
Bulgaria
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Søren Ulrik Thomsen
Søren Ulrik Thomsen
Søren Ulrik Thomsen is a Danish poet. His debut was City Slang, 1981.-Life:Søren Ulrik Thomsen was born in 1956 in Kalundborg. He grew up in Store Heddinge, Stevns, south of Copenhagen, where he went to school together with another Danish poet, Jens Fink-Jensen from 1968 to 1972...

 
Denmark
Denmark
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Jens-Martin Eriksen Denmark
Tatjana Ščerbina Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

Robert Minhinnick
Robert Minhinnick
Robert Minhinnick is a Welsh poet, essayist, novelist and translator.Minhinnick was born in Neath, and now lives in Porthcawl. He studied at University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and University of Wales, Cardiff. An environmental campaigner, he co-founded the charities Friends of the Earth and...

 
Wales
Wales
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Stephen Rodefer
Stephen Rodefer
Stephen Rodefer is an American poet and painter who lives in Paris and London. Rodefer is one of the founders of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry movement...

 
USA
Elena Fanailova
Elena Fanailova
Elena Nikolayevna Fanailova is a Russian poet.Born in Voronezh, she graduated from the Voronezh Medical Institute and earned a degree in journalism from Voronezh State University. She worked for six years as a doctor at Voronezh Regional Hospital...

 
Russia
Vicent Berenguer Spain
Spain
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Milan Richter Slovakia
Slovakia
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Vsevolod Emelin Russia
Peter Racz Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

Dan Coman Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

W. N. Herbert
W. N. Herbert
W. N. Herbert, also known as Bill Herbert is a poet from Dundee, Scotland. He writes in both English and Scots. He and Richard Price founded the poetry magazine Gairfish. Educated at Brasenose College he currently teaches at Newcastle University...

 
England
Ide Hintze Austria
Øyvind Berg
Øyvind Berg
Øyvind Berg is a Norwegian ski jumper who competed from 1983 to 1996.He won a gold medal in the team large hill at the 1993 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships and finished 22nd in the individual normal hill at those same championships.Berg's best individual finish at the Winter Olympics was 17th...

 
Norway
Claudiu Komartin Romania
Nicholas Blincoe
Nicholas Blincoe
Nicholas Blincoe is an English author, critic and screenwriter. He is the author of six novels, Acid Casuals , Jello Salad , Manchester Slingback , The Dope Priest , White Mice , Burning Paris...

 
England
Ayten Mutlu
Ayten Mutlu
Ayten Mutlu is a Turkish poet and writer. She graduated from Yıldız Technical University and Istanbul University and graduated from Management faculty of İstanbul University in 1975. She retired from The Central Bank. She was politically active, in the Women rights Movement.She has published...

 
Turkey
Turkey
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Grisha Trifonov Bulgaria
Jean Portante France
France
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Serbian authors

* Vladimir Tasić  * Marko Vidojković * Vićazoslav Hronjec
* Miro Vuksanović * Dragan Jovanović Danilov * Oto Tolnai
* Goran Petrović
Goran Petrovic
Goran Petrović is one of the most significant and most widely read among contemporary Serbian writers. He studied Yugoslav and Serbian literature at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology. He works as a librarian in a city library in Žiča, very close to Žiča Monastery...

 
* Nina Živančević * Slavko Almažan
* Zivlak Jovan
Zivlak Jovan
-Life and career:Zivlak ended his secondary school education in Kikinda, and graduated from the University of Novi Sad with a degree in Serbian language and literature. He was editor for the magazine Polja. Zivlak was also the editor in chief of Svetovi publishing from 1985 to 2007. He is currently...

 
* Đorđo Sladoje * Kornelija Farago
* Vida Ognjenović
Vida Ognjenovic
Vida Ognjenović is a famous Serbian theater director, playwright, writer, drama professor and diplomat....

 
* Milan Nenadić * Janoš Banjai
* Danilo Nikolić * Dragan Dragojlović * Alpar Lošonc
* Mileta Prodanović  * Zoran Đerić * Dušan Pajin
* Jovica Aćin * Ivan Negrišorac * Aleksandar Jerkov
* Igor Marojević
Igor Marojević
Igor Marojević is a Serbian writer. Born in Vrbas, Serbia in 1968. He is the youngest prose author presented in the latest edition of Jovan Deretić's Short History of Serbian Literature. He lives in Zemun, Belgrade, Serbia.- Biography :...

 
* Zlatko Krasni * Mladen Vesković
* Milica Mićić-Dimovska * Ranko Risojević * Vladimir Gvozden
* Franja Petrinović * Radomir D. Mitrić * Novica Milić

Branko’s Award

During the Festival, a ceremony of awarding "Branko’s Award" (Serbian: Brankova nagrada) to the Young Serbian poet of the Year is held in Sremski Karlovci
Sremski Karlovci
Sremski Karlovci is a town and municipality in Serbia, in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, situated on the bank of the river Danube, 8 km from Novi Sad...

.

The most important Branko Award’s Laureates

  • Vasko Popa
    Vasko Popa
    - Biography :Popa was born in the village of Grebenac , Vojvodina, Serbia. After finishing high school, he enrolled as a student of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy. He continued his studies at the University of Bucharest and in Vienna...


  • Aleksandar Tišma
    Aleksandar Tišma
    Aleksandar Tišma was a Serbian novelist.He completed the basic and middle school in Novi Sad and studied economy and French language and literature in Budapest during World War II, to finally graduate on Germanistics from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology...


  • Borislav Radović

  • Rajko Petrov Nogo

  • Raša Livada

  • Mile Stojić

  • Branko Maleš

  • Nina Živančević

  • Dragan Jovanović Danilov

  • Ana Ristović

  • Radomir D. Mitrić

International Literary Award Novi Sad

Every year, International Literary Award Novi Sad is given to a world renowned living poet for his poetic oeuvre or life achievement in the field of poetry.

Previous laureates include:
  • Christoph Meckel
    Christoph Meckel
    Christoph Meckel is a German author and graphic artist.- Life :Christoph Meckel spent his youth in Freiburg im Breisgau, where he attended Gymnasium. In 1954/55 he studied graphic art at the Academy of Art in Freiburg im Breisgau, and in 1956 at the Academy of Art in München.Since 1956 he has...

  • Jean Pierre Faye
  • Ben Okri
    Ben Okri
    Ben Okri OBE FRSL is a Nigerian poet and novelist. Okri has become the leading figure of his generation of Nigerian writers who have largely abandoned the social and historical themes of Chinua Achebe, and brought together modernist narrative strategies and Nigerian oral and literary...

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