Sasha Skenderija
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Born | Vitez, Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia |
4 July 1968
Education | University of Sarajevo Charles University |
Occupation | Poet Author |
Known for | Poetry Lyrics |
Sasha Skenderija (born 4 July 1968) is a Bosnian-American poet currently residing in Prague.
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Biography
Skenderija began publishing poetry, prose and criticism in Bosnian (Serbo-Croatian) in the late 1980s, graduating from the University of Sarajevo in 1991. After surviving six months of the siege of Sarajevo, he fled to Prague, where he received a Ph.D. in Information Science from Charles University (1997). In 1999, with the help of translator and Cornell University linguistics professor Wayles Browne,[1] Skenderija arrived in Ithaca, New York. He relocated to New York City in 2010 and lived in Astoria, Queens.[2] He now lives in Prague, Czech Republic while working for the Czech National Library of Technology.[3]
Skenderija is one of the most renowned Bosnian poets born since 1960, and his work confronts a range of experience, from the quotidian to the polemical, while pushing the boundaries of the genre.[4] He ranks among the Bosnian poets with the most English-language reviews.[5]
Works
Books of poetry (Bosnian)
- Golo O[6]
- Kako naslikati žar-pticu[7]
- Ništa nije kao na filmu[8]
- Praški fraktali[9]
- Zašto je patuljak morao biti ustrijeljen[10]
- Rt Dobre Nade[11]
Books of poetry (English translation)
Poems in Anthologies
His poetry has been included in several Bosnian and Croatian anthologies and translated into Czech, English, Macedonian[14] and Slovenian:[15]
- Prague Tales: A Collection of Central European Contemporary Writing,[16]
- Absinthe, New European Writing,[17]
- There is Less and Less Space: Panorama of the Newest Bosnian Poetry (in Bosnian),[18]
- Scar on the Stone: Contemporary Poetry from Bosnia,[19]
- Conan Lives Here: Young Bosnian Poetry 1992-1996 (in Croatian),[20]
- Messages from the Bottom of the Night: Literature of Bosnia and Herzegovina under Siege and in Exile (in Czech),[21]
- The Passion of Difference/Dark Sound of Emptiness: Croatian Poetry of the 1990s (in Croatian)[22]
English translations of his poems have also been included in:
- Balkan Visions and Silver Visions II,[23]
- Witness[24]
- Like a Fragile Index of the World: Poems for David Skorton[25]
- Spirit of Bosnia[26]
- The City That Never Sleeps: Poems of New York[27]
Skenderija also contributed lyrics to three albums of the cult Sarajevo techno-industrial band SCH (VRIL, 2002; Eat This!, 2004; and Dance, 2007).
References
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