24/05 //\ 19:00 //\ Photo Cluster
//\ Reading with Monika Herceg hosted by Melisa Slipac
Monika Herceg is a poet, playwright, editor, feminist and activist from the small village Pecki near Petrinja, Croatia. She was awarded more than twenty literature prizes and translated to more than twenty languages. She explores the topics of poverty, domestic violence, immigration, and class and gender inequalities. She is the winner of the biennial Polish prize European Poet of Freedom 2024 for the book of poetry Lovostaj, and a Central European Initiative Award for Young Writers.
Melisa Slipac was born in in 1978 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. For more than 20 years she has organised literary readings and has worked in the arts and culture. She lives in Vienna and works as a language teacher and trainer.
The reading will be held in English.
Supported by Stadt Wien, BMKOES, Bezirk Josefstadt, Bezirk Margareten, Bezirk Meidling, Photo Cluster and Hotel Korotan.