The promotion of Ognjen Spahić's novel "Masalai", which was published by the publishing house "Nova knjiga", will be held tonight on the plateau in front of the Castle of King Nikola in Bar at 21 p.m., as part of the Bar Chronicle. The interview with the famous writer will be conducted by the editor of the publishing house. New book" by Jelena Krsmanović.
Ognjen Spahić was born in Podgorica in 1977. He published books of short stories: Everything (Plima, Ulcinj, 2001), Zimska potraga (Durieux, OKF, Zagreb, Cetinje, 2007) and Puna glava radosti (Nova knjiga, Podgorica, 2014). .
He received the Meša Selimović award in 2004 for the novel Hansenova djeca (Durieux, OKF, Zagreb, Cetinje, 2005) (the best novel published in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro in 2004).
The novel Hansen's Children was published in French, Hungarian, Arabic, Italian, English, Slovenian, Macedonian and Romanian. Hansen's children in Romania were awarded the Ovid Festival Prize. Spahić received the European Union Prize for Literature for the book Full Head of Joy in 2014. His short stories have been translated into numerous world languages and represented in many anthologies. He lives in Podgorica.
"What are today the ghosts of modern nomads trapped in small apartments built in the times when apartments for the middle class were still being built? Are they their parents, lost opportunities, unwritten stories and novels, unspoken words ``I love you'', missed loves? Who who does he seduce and why and in what way do today's ghosts mark and haunt a man in the urban jungle? These are just some of the questions that one of the best writers of his generation opens up in the novel Masalai. His hero, a writer who cannot utter the word ``I love'' ΄, is the author of a series of novels started and never finished, trapped in a small town and haunted by his mother, a retired geography professor, as much as he is her. Masalai is a novel about writing and a writer who is not really one, a novel that painfully shows all the impossibility of modern man imprisoned in the transitional swamp to move away from the state of consciousness of the collective, who is haunted by spirits wherever he is and who is as vulnerable, naïve and burdened with fears as the tribal man in the jungle." (S. Serdarević)
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