.dıtiramb in co-operation with Literaturmeile Zieglergasse
12/09 //\ 17:30 //\ Photo Cluster
Sandra Gugić hosted by Melisa Slipac
Sandra Gugić is a poet, essayist and novelist, and has lived in Vienna, Berlin and Tel Aviv-Jaffa. She studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and at the Institute for Literature in Leipzig. She has received numerous awards for her literary work, most recently (2023) the Caroline Schlegel Prize for essays. Her debut novel Astronauten was published in 2015 by C. H. Beck, followed in 2020 by the novel Zorn und Stille published by Hoffmann und Campe. Verlagshaus Berlin has published her poetry debut Protokolle der Gegenwart (2019), the essay FLÜSTERN (2022), and the lyrical-essayistic dialogue project DAS DAZWISCHEN / The In-between (2024), which originated in Israel.
Melisa Slipac was born in 1978 in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She holds an MA in English, Spanish, Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian language and literature, and a PhD in Slavic Studies from the University of Vienna. Her first book of poetry Ples između zidova (Dancing among the Walls) (2007), was awarded the Petar Kočić literary prize for poets from the former Yugoslavia living in German-speaking countries. She also published a bilingual collection of poetry Troglavi svijet/Dreikopfwelt (Three headed World) with two other female authors (2017). For more than 20 years she has organised literary readings and has been active in arts and culture. She lives in Vienna and works as a language teacher and trainer.
The reading will be held in English.
Supported by Bundesministerium für Wohnen, Kunst, Kultur, Medien und Sport, Stadt Wien, Bezirk Margareten, Bezirk Josefstadt, Bezirk Neubau, Traduki, Photo Cluster, ÖH and Hotel Korotan.