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Lana Basta\u0161i\u0107<\/strong> (Zagreb, 1986) has published two collections of short stories (Fireworks<\/em> and Permanent Pigments<\/em>), a poetry collection, A Naive Triptych about Bosnia and Dying<\/em>, and a collection of stories for children, Nastja Draws the Sun<\/em>. Her first novel, Catch the Rabbit<\/em> (2019), received the European Union Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the NIN Award. It has been translated into twelve languages.<\/p>\n The author has received several awards for best short story, including the \u201cZija Dizdarevi\u0107,\u201d \u201cUlaznica,\u201d and \u201cCarver: Where I\u2019m Calling From\u201d awards, as well as two poetry awards (Targa UNESCO in Trieste and the \u201cDays of Poetry\u201d award in Zaje\u010dar), the SKC Kragujevac Award for a First Book, and an award for an unpublished play (\u201cChamber Theatre 55\u201d in Sarajevo). Her stories have appeared in Polja, Putevi, Sarajevske sveske, Povelja, Fantom slobode<\/em>, and other regional literary magazines. Her work has also been included in several regional collections and anthologies.<\/p>\n She founded the Bloom School of Literature in Barcelona, where she edited the literary magazine Carn de cap<\/em>. She is one of the founders of the 3 + 3 Sisters project, which aims to promote women writers from the region. She sometimes lives in Belgrade.<\/p>\n \u201cLana Basta\u0161i\u0107 is one of the rare female authors to emerge onto both the international and domestic literary scenes from the former Yugoslavia. Basta\u0161i\u0107 surpasses her internationally acclaimed foreign peers as well as her local contemporaries in the maturity of her novelistic voice, her authentic authorial voice, the distinctive energy of her storytelling and, most importantly, the high literary standards that she set for herself, and consequently for others, with her debut novel Catch the Rabbit<\/em>. Although the first edition of the novel was presented as \u2018the first novel in our literature about female friendship,\u2019 Basta\u0161i\u0107 belongs neither to \u2018our\u2019 literature nor to the narrative \u2018brand\u2019 of the celebrated Elena Ferrante, into which everyone would so readily place her. Lana Basta\u0161i\u0107 is her own. Is there a greater literary compliment in this day and age?\u201d<\/p>\n – Dubravka Ugre\u0161i\u0107<\/p>\n \u201cPlaying with famous literary motifs, hidden and less hidden references, Lana Basta\u0161i\u0107 found her own perspective and wrote a bold, brilliant novel – a promise of sorts that her next book will offer even more, and even better. And that is already devilishly high praise.\u201d<\/p>\n – Ivan Milenkovi\u0107<\/p>\n \u201cCatch the Rabbit<\/em> is a subtle, complex, tender and exceptionally intelligent story about our time which, I hope, will become required reading.\u201d<\/p>\n – Rumena Bu\u017earovska<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lana Basta\u0161i\u0107 (Zagreb, 1986) has published two collections of short stories (Fireworks and Permanent Pigments), a poetry collection, A Naive Triptych about Bosnia and Dying, and a collection of stories for children, Nastja Draws the Sun. Her first novel, Catch the Rabbit (2019), received the European Union Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ucesnici-2020"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4157"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5101,"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4157\/revisions\/5101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}