Canadian writer Margaret Atwood is the winner of the international award "Literary Flame" for 2019, it was announced today from the publishing house "Nova knjiga".
The decision was made unanimously by the jury chaired by the Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Ljosa, whose members are professors Aleksandar Jerkov, Sonja Tomović Šundić, Siniša Jelušić and the director and editor of "New Book" Predrag Uljarević.
"A writer who achieved herself in such a wide variety of genres, leaving the confines of traditional fiction to try herself in the fields of dystopia, conceptual fiction, and even graphic novels, a bold visionary whose move is to, as a literary legacy, intend to publish an already written literary work in in the distant future, an extremely unusual and unique experiment, at the same time she is a poet and the author of novels that have left their mark on contemporary Anglo-American literature," the announcement states.
The announcement adds that the two Booker Prizes are in the mature and late stages of Margaret Atwood's creativity, of which this year's Booker Prize coincided with the final decision of the jury and made it difficult for him to work, because due to new obligations it was impossible to precisely determine the dates of awarding the prize.
"On the fiftieth anniversary of her work as a novelist, in that multitude of literary manifestations that received a number of Canadian, All-American and world recognitions, in extraordinary circulations and strong engagement, the author who had several notable translations in our country also presented an extremely rich and diverse oeuvre that will in light Kof tender flame now be brightly lit before us. The jury saw an effort to boldly expand the field of literature and an orientation towards the future, so based on the multitude of literary achievements, it made a decision on the first winner," reads the announcement of "New Books".
The fifth "Literary Flame" award will be presented to the winners in the spring, when an academic round table dedicated to her literary work will be organized.
Mario Vagasa Llosa also received this award in 2015, Italian writer Claudio Magris in 2016, Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk in 2017, while in 2018 the winner was Polish writer Adam Zagajewski.
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