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<\/a>About the author<\/i><\/p>\nUglje\u0161a \u0160ajtinac was born in 1971 in Zrenjanin.<\/p>\n
He graduated in 1999 from the Department of Dramaturgy, Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. He won the Josip Kulund\u017ei\u010d <\/i>award for the best student of dramaturgy, as well as the Slobodan Seleni\u0107 <\/i>award for the best graduation text (Pravo na Rusa – The Right to the Russian)<\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n
Between 2003 and 2005 he was a dramaturge for the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad. He edited the collection of new dramatic texts by young authors PROJEKAT 3, <\/i>which were staged at the festival of the same name in May 2005 at the Serbian National Theatre.<\/p>\n
Since 2005 he has been teaching Dramaturgy at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad.<\/p>\n
He has received the literary award Biljana Jovanovi\u0107 <\/i>and Vital Prize <\/i>and three screenplay awards (Novi Sad, Vrnja\u010dka Banja and Warsaw).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
His drama Hadersfild (Huddersfield) <\/i>won the Jovan Sterija Popovi\u0107 Award<\/i> for the best contemporary dramatic text at the Sterijino pozorje Festival <\/i>in 2005. <\/i><\/p>\n
He has been a member of the Serbian Literary Association since 2007.<\/p>\n
Uglje\u0161a \u0160ajtinac has written:<\/p>\n
Prose:<\/span><\/i> <\/i>Sasvim skromni darovi <\/i><\/b>(Quite Modest Gifts, <\/i>novel, Arhipelag, Belgrade, 2011, Vital Award,<\/i> 2012); Vok on! <\/i><\/b>(Walk On!, <\/i>novel, Narodna knjiga, Alfa, Belgrade, 2007, Biljana Jovanovi\u0107 Award,<\/i> 2008); Vetru\u0161kina ledina <\/i><\/b>(Vetru\u0161ka\u2019s Clearing, <\/i>Dirty Books\/SKC Novi Sad, 2006); Predsmrtna mladost <\/i><\/b>(Pre-fatal Youth: Anthology of New Serbian Drama\/1995-2005,<\/i> Novi Sad, Sterijino pozorje, 2006, drama Huddersfield)<\/i>); Nada stanuje na kraju grada <\/b>(Nada \u00a0Lives on the Edge of Town, <\/i>novel, SKC, Belgrade, 2002); Pri\u010de za kraj veka <\/i><\/b>(Stories for the End of the Century, <\/i>Kikindske novine, 2000 \u2013 story: In the Lift<\/i>); Pse\u0107i vek <\/b>\u2013 \u0161est pripoveda\u010da <\/b>(The Age of the Dog \u2013<\/i> Six Story Tellers, <\/i>Beopolis, Belgrade, 2000, the title story); \u010cemer <\/i><\/b>(Woe, <\/i>stories, Jefimija, Kragujevac, 1997) and \u010cuda prirode <\/i><\/b>(Miracles of Nature, <\/i>novel, KOS, 1993)<\/i><\/p>\n Dramas<\/span><\/i>:<\/span> <\/b>Lepet mojih plu\u0107nih krila <\/i><\/b>(The Fluttering of My Lungs, <\/i>2009); Vetru\u0161kina deca <\/i><\/b>(Vetru\u0161ka\u2019s Children, <\/i>2008); Banat<\/i><\/b> (2007); <\/b>Hadersfild <\/i><\/b>(Huddersfield,<\/i> 2005, premiered at the Leeds\u2019 West Yorkshire Playhouse, in English, the only drama by a Serbian author staged within the official repertoire of professional theatres in Great Britain, 2004); <\/b>Govorite li australijski<\/i>? <\/b>(Do You Speak Australian?, <\/i>2002); Pravo na Rusa <\/i><\/b>(The Right to the Russian, <\/i>2001); Rekviziter <\/i><\/b>(The Keeper of the Props, <\/i>1999, staged at the Festival of Contemporary European Drama in Huddersfield, Great Britain, 2000)<\/p>\n Radio-dramas<\/span><\/i>:<\/span> <\/b>\u0110akon Bogorodin\u010dine crkve <\/i><\/b>(The Deacon of Notre Dame, <\/em><\/i>1999) and U bunaru <\/i><\/b>(In the Well, <\/i>1998).<\/p>\n Films:<\/span><\/i> <\/i>Hadersfild <\/i><\/b>(Huddersfield – <\/i>feature film, co-author of the screenplay, 2007 – Ibis<\/i>, award for best screenplay at the festival in Novi Sad, 2007; \u00a0<\/b>the <\/b>2nd<\/sup> prize for screenplay at the Festival of Film Screenplays, Vrnja\u010dka Banja, 2007; Special Screenplay Award at the 14th<\/sup> Film and Arts Festival, Film Summer, Warsaw, 2008); Hadersfild <\/i><\/b>(Huddersfield, <\/i>documentary, 2005); <\/b>Istinita pri\u010da o biciklu, ki\u0161obranu, jednom metku i uskr\u0161njem zeki <\/i><\/b>(A True Story about a Bicycle, an Umbrella, One Bullet and Easter Bunny, <\/i>documentary 2003).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n About the books<\/i><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n About the book Sasvim skromni darovi <\/i><\/b>(<\/i>Quite Modest Gifts)<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n (\u2026) \u0160ajtinac weaves a fine web of literary and inter-media associations into his novel, establishing correlations with historical accounts, the world literature\u2019s works of prose and poetry from several different epochs and national cultures, with fine art works, substantially coated with the contemporary pop-culture, music and film in particular. These references and citations reflect an encounter and meeting of the main characters\u2019 interests, and a kind of reconciliation of opposites existing in the relationships between generations whose tastes and viewpoints were formed on the bases of different experiences and after different educational models. If you carefully follow the associations and allusions, as well as the tone used by heroes to express them, the swop leading to the final twist, although unexpected, at the moment when both brothers have already accepted the situation they found themselves in, is actually not surprising at all.<\/p>\n (\u2026) By insisting on the key importance of family as the source and the outcome, as man\u2019s elementary purpose, the author pushes to the background all other motives and problems, and reconciles all the opposites: from the generational gap to general contrasts between the fervent centre, full of events, and the sleepy province, the eastern cultural code and the western currents, ideological differences and historical changes.<\/p>\n (\u2026) Modest simplicity has not left \u0160ajtinac\u2019 novel without complexness. The plot, the characters, relationships, emotions, language and allusions, everything in this book has a base in life, common and everyday life. This has earned a wide audience and critical recognition for the author. In return, it offers to the reader a literary pleasure without heavy themes, stretched intellectual intricacies and pompous style, returning a sincere emotion, which, by means of irony, has been kept unspoiled by pathos, and the form of epistolary novel to our contemporary literary horizon. An exchange of gifts in the best symbolical sense; quite modest gifts, but more than enough nevertheless.<\/p>\n Milica Mirkovi\u0107<\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n About the book Walk On!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n The knots in \u0160ajtinac\u2019 book are so witty that they can make you sick and ache. Not with pain, but with a mouthful of juicy words. What are the travel journals in Walk On!<\/i><\/b> <\/i>like? Are they? They are wild! Just like the journeys. Covering distances in space and time. Distances in (one\u2019s own) self. Between Great Be\u010dkerek and Great Britain. Between Orkney and Kosovo. \u010curug and Chicago. From Banat to the Baltic. From Turija to Tunguska. And Sumatra, naturally… From an old clearing to a new crop field. Distances not even the author himself knows. Friends and relatives. The living and the dead. Through the Heaven and Hell. Sex and alcohol. With a full heart. With a mouth full of warm sentences. Juicy. Alive.<\/p>\n Ever since his debut novel \u010cuda prirode (Miracles of Nature)<\/i>, the collection of stories \u010cemer (Woe)<\/i>and the correspondence with his father, the unique work of the world literary heritage, Nada stanuje na kraju grada (Nada Lives on the Edge of Town), <\/i>I have often imagined Uglje\u0161a as someone who disseminates empathy. Emits emotions. Too wide for the (op)pressed text. Yet: \u2018Then a take a solemn oath, under the bell, at noon, to dedicate my whole life ahead of me to write a ruling which would acquit myself of anyone\u2019s possible empathy. It is strenuous work and requires a whole person…\u2019 A whole writer who we are listening to while reading Walk On!. <\/i>Not only his teeth and mouth, but most of all his passionate breath and the rhythm of a heart so open that it can engulf entire Pannonia.<\/p>\n Ivan Pravdi\u0107<\/i><\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" About the author Uglje\u0161a \u0160ajtinac was born in 1971 in Zrenjanin. He graduated in 1999 from the Department of Dramaturgy, Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. 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