The publishing house Blum from Belgrade launched the project "Contemporary Serbian Prose" dedicated to the works of local writers of different generations, poetics and literary sensibilities. The project includes ten books, five of which have already been published, while the remaining editions are expected by the end of the year.
Given that he does not participate in the Book Fair, he presents them to readers and the public on programs Rebel publishers of Serbia and on its website.
Contemporary Serbian prose
It is among the five already published novels Deutsche Vita Marko Stojkić, current winner of the "Stevan Sremac" Award. The suicide of a friend from his youth prompts a Serbian doctor working in Germany to investigate family secrets and confront his own illusions in a novel that examines emigration, guilt and the cost of believing in the omnipotence of money.
In the novel Cancer in the horoscope Vladislava Vojnović, an award-winning writer and screenwriter, the writer of Koviljka faces a cancer diagnosis, but refuses to accept the role of victim. Witty, uncompromising and devoid of sentimentality, this story about illness, family and female solidarity turns into an unusual search for an answer to the question to whom human life actually belongs.
Island of discarded toys, a novel by the celebrated Serbian writer Miomir Petrović, takes the reader to Sinai, where the search for a missing relative becomes a journey through personal and family past. Between desert monasteries, old manuscripts and memories of the vanished Yugoslavia, a novel about belonging, faith, doubts and the search for one's own identity develops.
U Palm Sunday Miloš Perišić, author of the novel St. Bartholomew's Abbey, who was in the finals of the selection for NIN's award, his childhood in the Šumadija village under Kosmaj turns into a lavish family fresco. In a world dominated by women, pagan customs, Christian symbols, folk beliefs and children's imagination merge into a peculiar, almost magical reality.
Don't go far. Neda Bjelanović, author of the novel Red roofs, for which she received the "Danko Popović" and "Svetozar Ćorović" literary awards, is the story of a woman trying to start a new life in a small Greek town at the foot of Mount Olympus. Through memories of growing up, the war and the relationship between the two sisters, the novel becomes an elegy about the homeland and places that we can leave, but which never completely leave us.
Within the same project, novels are expected by the end of the year Dolls and Adolfs Sonja Atanasijevic, Pavlov's dogs Sonja Sljivic, Blind spot Jasmine Ahmetagic, Anatomy of arrival Dušan Radaković and a collection of stories So Siniša Gavrić.
World prose
It occupies a special place Satan Tango Lasla Krasnahorkai, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2025, published in soft and hardcover, in cooperation with Saturna publishing house. This novel, one of the key works of contemporary European and world literature, presents a dark, hypnotic picture of a community caught between decay, deception and hope for salvation.
It was also published Someone else's death Claudia Piñeiro, Bloom's best-selling author, Argentinian writer whose novels combine psychological tension, social criticism and uncompromising questioning of contemporary life.
Among the new editions there is also a classic Mexico City Massacre Elena Poniatovska, winner of the "Cervantes" Award, the highest recognition for literature in the Spanish language. The author is on the short list of candidates for the Nobel Prize every year. A poignant documentary testimony about the student movement and the bloody suppression of protests in Mexico in 1968.
Girl with a like Helene Janeček takes us back to Europe in the 1930s and the life of Gerda Taro, a pioneer of war photography who died during the Spanish Civil War. The novel explores the relationship between art, love, political ideals and history through the fate of a woman who refused to remain in someone else's shadow.
Hey, good morning, how are you? Martine Hefter, winner of the 2024 German Literary Prize, is an unusual story about loneliness, digital fraud and unexpected closeness between people living in different parts of the world.
Let's note that Bloom published 35 books last year - all of them are available on this publisher's website.
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