Prof. Ph.D. Lidija Tomić is the winner of the "Trifun Đukić" award for literary theory, history, criticism and essay writing, the Association of Writers of Montenegro (UKCG) announced.
Jury composed of: prof. Jelica Stojanović, Ph.D. (president) and members of Assoc. Goran Radonjić, Ph.D. and Milorad Durutović, M.Sc., unanimously decided to award the prize to Lidija Tomić for the book "Literary Spaces - Analysis and Interpretation" which was published in 2022 by Matica Srpska - Society of Members in Montenegro.
"Lidija Tomić's book represents a unique gift to literary theory, history, criticism and essay writing, and it is important that a book of this importance is the first to be awarded within the framework of the establishment of the 'Trifun Đukić' award," the explanation points out.
"Literary spaces" represent a collection of exceptional and rare scientific testimonies and analyzes about literary trends, writers, cultural phenomena and occurrences, it was stated in the announcement of the UKCG.
"In the book, a very rare literary vertical is given because the time period from the Middle Ages (Serbian medieval literature) to contemporary authors is represented. In addition, in an analytical, scientific, well-argued and truthful way, the situation in Montenegro, the Serbian linguistic and literary heritage, as opposed to the falsifications of the last decades, are illuminated," added the UKCG.
Tomićeva was born in 1955 in Nikšić. She completed her studies of Serbian language and literature, majoring in Yugoslav and general literature, at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade in 1978. At the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, she received her master's degree on the topic "Poetry of Slobodan Marković" in 1985 and received the "Velibor Gligorić" award for the best master's thesis defended that year. She received her doctorate at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade in 1988 on the topic "Poetics of Miodrag Bulatović", and the book "The Grotesque World of Miodrag Bulatović" was based on that thesis.
At the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Montenegro, in Nikšić, she has been engaged in the Department of Serbian Language and Literature since 1983, and since 2010 she has been a full-time professor. From 1987 to 1990, she was a lecturer for the Serbo-Croatian language in France at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Bordeaux.
She has published a large number of scientific and professional works, participated in numerous conferences, congresses, symposia, is a member of the Committee for Literature of the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, is a member of Matica Srpska, editor of the magazine "Oktoih", she writes on the website ucg.ac.me.
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