Ognjen Spahić

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Ognjen Spahić


Born
in Podgorica, Montenegro
January 01, 1977


Ognjen Spahić was born in 1977 in Podgorica, Montenegro. He is the best-known member of the young generation of Montenegrin writers to have emerged since the collapse of former Yugoslavia. Spahić has published two collections of short stories: Sve to (All That, 2001) and Zimska potraga (Winter Search, 2007). His novel Hansenova djeca (Hansen’s Children, 2004) won him the 2005 Meša Selimović Prize for the best new novel from Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina. It also won the 2011 Ovid Festival Prize, an award for literature translated into Romanian.
To date, Hansenova djeca has been published in Slovenian, Romanian, Hungarian and Macedonian editions. Spahić’s short stories have been translated into Czech, Greek, Turkish, Rom
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“Dakle: srce. Izvaditi organ iz bolesnih grudi i sahraniti ga u rodnoj zemlji. Sestrica će se nesumnjivo pobrinuti da to bude raskošna kristalna posuda, prozirna i teška, sa dobrim zatvaračem. Delacroix će predložiti da se komad mesa potopi u vrhunskom konjaku, pa će i na taj način smrt slavnog kompozitora biti ponuđena kao već gotova proza servirana uz kardiovaskularni desert. I samo jezivo retardirana budala ne bi bila u stanju da od tog materijala sastavi priču. Imaginacija gotovo da i nije potrebna. Sve je savršeno jasno, pa se usuđujem reći kako je čin Chopinove smrti tabelarni plan postupaka kojima možete zakoračiti u književno blato, a da ne potonete grokćući poput glupave svinje. Dakako, govorim o prosjeku. Govorim o slijepcima zalutalim u svijet literature koji ne vide dalje od, recimo, Chopinovog srca.”
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