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Here is the cover of the Japanese language edition of Zoran Živković’s novel The Five Wonders of the Danube, just published by the Tokyo based Seirindo Shobo as a part of “The Zoran Živković Fantastika” collection — a multi volume series of his collected works of fiction.

Here is the cover of the forthcoming Indian edition, in the Marathi language, of Zoran Živković’s latest novel The Four Deaths and One Resurrection of Fyodor Mikhailovich. The book is to be brought out by the the Malegaon based Walden Publication.

It is just announced that professor Nitin Rindhe won the prestigious Best Translation Award, given annually by The Lokmat (the leading newspaper in the Marathi language, India), for his excellent translation of Zoran Živković’s mosaic novel The Library.

Here are the covers of the four recent Turkish editions of Zoran Živkovic’s books, published by the Istanbul based Ketebe:

1. The Papyrus Trilogy

2. Seven Touches of Music

3. Time Gifts

4. The Library

One of the most prominent contemporary Turkish artists, Engin Beyaz, presented his new series of paintings inspired by Zoran Živkovic’s mosaic novel The Library (World Fantasy Award 2003) at the exhibition just opened in the very prestigious Presidential National Library (Cumhurbaskanligi Millet Kütüphanesi) in Ankara.

“The library is not just a place where books are lined up, but also a memory space where thoughts and dreams accumulate layer by layer. The library is not only the architect of the past, but also of the present and the future. Inspired by Zoran Živković’s work The Library (Başka Zaman Kütüphaneleri in Turkish), Engin Beyaz sees books not as dull objects, but as entities that change shape over time: texts floating in time, voids that can never be fully filled, and images oscillating between existence and nothingness… The artist redefines the act of reading not only through letters, but also through objects, shadows, and senses. The works, which avoid crashing into dreams but ultimately dive into them, wander on the very boundaries of dual existence.”

(“Kütüphane yalnızca kitapların sıralandığı bir mekân değil, düşüncelerin ve düşlerin de katman katman biriktiği bir hafıza alanıdır. Kütüphane sadece geçmişin değil, şimdinin ve geleceğin de mimarıdır. Zoran Zivkovic’in Başka Zaman Kütüphaneleri adlı eserinden ilham alan Engin Beyaz, kitapları donuk objeler olarak değil, zaman içinde şekil değiştiren varlıklar olarak görür: Zamanın içinde süzülen metinler, asla tam anlamıyla doldurulamayacak boşluklar ve varlıkla yokluk arasında salınan suretler olarak… Sanatçı, okuma eylemini yalnızca harflerle değil, nesneler, gölgeler ve duyular üzerinden yeniden tanımlar. Düşlere çarpmaktan kaçınmak ama sonunda düşlere dalmak arasındaki eserler, ikili varoluşun tam da sınırlarında dolaşır.”)

The second edition of The White Room and the first edition of The Four Deaths and One Resurrection of Fyodor Mikhailovich are just brought out by the Castro Verde based Portuguese publisher Grupo Narrativa as a part of “The Zoran Živković Collection”.

The Indian edition of The Library is just published by the Malegaon based Walden Publication.

This is the first book ever translated from the Serbian into the Marathi language.

The Slovenian edition of The White Room is just brought out by the Celje based Ekselenski Publishing.

My selection of the five best prose works that I keep rereading again and again is just posted on the literary platform Shepherd.

You can find the other four titles as well as more about what did I love about each of these books here.

The second Burmese language edition of Twelve Collections is just out, published by the Mawlamyine based 10A.