"Ćirilicom" Festival: On Saturday, a critique symposium on the works of Olga Tokarčuk and the awarding of the Literary flame award

Aleksandar Jerkov, academician Siniša Jelušić and director of the Book Publishing Department in the Official Gazette Petar Arbutina will speak at the award ceremony, which will be followed by a conversation with Olga Tokarčuk.

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Olga Tokarchuk, Photo: Shutterstock
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On Saturday's program of the seventh "Ćirilicom" festival, there is a Symposium of critics on the works of Olga Tokarčuk, which will be held in the church of Santa Maria in Punta in the Old Town at nine o'clock, announced the Public Library of Budva.

Participants of the symposium are: Vladislava Petković Gordić, Aleksandar Jerkov, Mladen Vesković, Radomir Uljarević, Gojko Božović, Jelena Jovićević, Danica Vukićević, Muharem Bazdulj, Alen Bešić, Mirjana Frau Gardinovacki, Sonja Tomović Šundić and Siniša Jelušić.

On the same day, at 21:XNUMX on the Square between the churches, the international award for literature "Literary Flame" will be presented to Olga Tokarčuk, which was awarded to her by the jury chaired by Mario Vargas Llosa.

Previous winners of the prestigious award were the Italian writer Claudio Magris, the Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, the Polish writer Adam Zagajevski, prominent Canadian and world poet, prose writer and essayist Margaret Atwood, great world writers Gabriel Zaid, Irene Vallejo and Javier Serkas...

Aleksandar Jerkov, academician Siniša Jelušić and director of the Book Publishing Department in the Official Gazette Petar Arbutina will speak at the award ceremony, which will be followed by a conversation with Olga Tokarčuk.

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