With Vida Ognjenović about image in theater and literature

The writer and director is a guest at the "Imaginarium" forum in Nikšić

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Ognjenović, Photo: Luka Zekovic
Ognjenović, Photo: Luka Zekovic
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Tomorrow evening, writer and director Vida Ognjenović will be the guest of the panel "Imaginarium" of JU "Zahumlje", and the topic will be "Image, literature and theater".

"Imaginarium" will be held in the concert hall of the "Dara Čokorilo" Music School, at 19 p.m., and the author of the "Imaginarium" project, art historian and editor of the program at JU "Zahumlje", will lead the conversation with the guest. Kristina Radovic.

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photo: Nikolina Kovačević

Vida Ognjenović is a writer, director and ambassador of Serbia (2004-2014). She was born in Dubočki (Banjani) near Nikšić in 1941. She completed primary and secondary school in Vojvodina, and graduated from the Department of General Literature at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade and the Department of Directing at the Belgrade Academy of Theatre, Film and Television. She began her postgraduate studies in Paris at the Sorbonne, and defended her master's thesis in theory and practice at the University of Minnesota. She was a Fulbright Foundation scholar.

From 1974 to 1979, she worked as an assistant at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. She was elected as the Director of Drama at the National Theater in Belgrade in 1977, and at the end of her four-year term, she remained employed as a permanent director. As a professor by invitation, she taught at the universities of Los Angeles (UCLA), Chicago (UIC), and as part of her lecture tours, she visited all major universities in the USA as a visiting lecturer. She is a full-time professor at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad and holds the title of emeritus professor at the Academy of Fine Arts and Multimedia in Belgrade, where she is also an advisor to the dean.

He writes novels, short stories, plays and essays.

Her directing opus includes close to a hundred theater, as well as a large number of television and radio directions, many of which are based on her own texts. As a director, she performed in many theaters throughout the former Yugoslavia, and she also worked abroad.

Her prose and plays have been translated into English, German, French, Hungarian, Czech, Macedonian and Bulgarian. Translations from English and German.

She is the president of the Serbian PEN Center and the vice president of the International PEN Center.

The forum is organized by JU "Zahumlje" in cooperation with the Music School, within the October repertoire of the Nikšić cultural scene.

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