Author: Anja Marković
Title: Kowloon/ Kowloon
Translated by: Varja Balžalorsky Antić
Year of publishing: 2017
ISBN: 978-961-93945-2-6
Price: 10 EUR
Biography: Anja Marković was born in Belgrade in 1988. She graduated from the department of Serbian Literature and Language with Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade. Her first collection of poetry Napolju su ljudi, for which she was awarded Branko’s Award, was published in 2012, and another collection of poetry Kowloon was published in 2016. In addition to two complete collections on paper, there is one more collection scattered within the project Vejte, snegovi – poezija u nestajanju (2016). She currently works as an editor at the Dereta publishing house and cooperates with the Nebograd association on the project Novi kompozitori i nova lirika.
About the book: Kowloon, otherwise one of the most densely populated places on the planet, in Anja Marković’s book grows into an “obsessed state of body” and spirit. Kowloon is the spread of various forms of hunger, fear and horror, the destruction of possibilities and hopes. However, with the prevailing resignation, there is also a tenacious vitalism, especially in the rhythmic-meaning layer.
Varja Balžalorsky Antić
Collection pesme=pesmi
brings bilingual books of young Slovenian and Serbian poets and poetesses
Editor-in-chief: Ivan Antić
Editorial board: Biljana Žikić and Ivan Antić