Milena Marković is the winner of the prize for international poetry

The winner of this year's prize of the city of Münster for international poetry is Milena Markovic, poet, playwright, academician and professor at the Belgrade Faculty of Dramatic Arts.

She was awarded for a novel in verses Children (German edition) Children) translated by Mirjana Milošević Whitman and Klaus Whitman.

Award ceremony Milena Markovic will be on July 5, as part of the traditional International Poetry Meeting, in the Erbdrostenhof Palace.

The City of Münster Prize is an international award established in 1993, shared by authors and their translators. The award is worth 15.500 euros.

The prize is biennial, and among the laureates are the Nobel laureates June Fosse and Derek Wolcott, the famous Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert, the American writer Ben Lerner (known in our country for the novel Departure from Atocha station), Belgian author Hugo Klaus (known for the novel The sadness of Belgium), Danish poet and prose writer Inger Christensen, whose poem That's it also published in our country, and Danijel Banulescuo (known to Serbian readers for his novel I kiss your ass, beloved leader!).

23 years ago, Miodrag Pavlović, a Serbian writer, professor and academician, longtime editor of "Prosveta" with his translator Peter Urban, received the award, and one of the winners was the famous Yugoslav and Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun.

Poetic novel Deca Milene Marković was published in 2021 by the publishing house LOM in Belgrade. It was awarded the Nino Award for the best novel of the year.

For decades, Mirjana and Carl Whitman have been translating poetry, prose and drama from the former Serbo-Croatian, and today's Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian languages ​​into German. They have received numerous awards, including the "Paul Celan" lifetime achievement award. German readers were brought closer to the works of David Albahari, Aleksandar Tišma, Miloš Crnjanski, Bora Ćosić, Svetlana Velmar Janković, Borislav Pekić, Dubravka Ugrešić, Radmila Lazić... Translation Children Milene Marković is the last translation of Klaus Wittmann from our languages ​​into German.

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