Respectable, many times awarded author, the best foreign author in Italy, and one of the most active culture managers in our region, EMIR SOKOLOVIĆ will have premiere Belgrade presentation of his rich literary opus.
His verses will be recited by one of our most distinguished actors Goran Sultanović, our guest/poet from Sarajevo Goran Simić will bring Emir’s work to our focus, and literary critic Marina Đenadić will speak about the poetry collection “Poetica demonica”.
This evening will be enriched with music by one of our best young violinists, Dušan Panajotović.
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BIOGRAFIJA
Emir Sokolović was born in 1961 in SFRY, and currently lives and works in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
His first collection of poems "Gdje i kaštu/ Dove e perche" was published in Italy (by "Foreman" Edition from Bergamo), 1983. year, and until today there have been titles that have been translated into several world languages, while Emir's verses have been published in numerous international anthologies.
In his native Zenica, he opened the first art gallery for sale, active until the beginning of the war, when he closed it for moral reasons.
During the war years, Emir's very notable intermedial performance "Apocalypse" was created - the author's vision of the madness in which we find ourselves, through creative and expressive synaesthesia. The project was performed in the City Reading Room and in the Zenica National Theater, along with television adaptations for NTV "Zetel" and TV BiH, which was a kind of precedent, considering the information blockade in which the city was.
1994. Sokolović staged his dramatic text "Paris - or it's futile to crucify Christ", which included teenagers in the very process of creation and thus took them off the streets and offered quality content and escape from ugly everyday life. Due to the ban on staging the play on the stage of the Zenica National Theater, it had its premiere at the Youth Theater in Travnik.
As an independent intellectual, Emir joined the "Greens" in 1998, with the desire to establish broken human and cultural bridges in the region. In the same year, he publishes the first BiH bilingual poetry collection "Bio je tada trska", which he promotes in "Karađorđev Konak" in Topola, which is also the first concrete attempt at cultural cooperation between our two countries.
At the same place in 2000, he also promotes the book "Paris - or it is futile to crucify Christ", where the actor Goran Sultanović appears as a special guest.
With the eternal goal of reviving and enriching the cultural life in Zenica, together with a group of lovers and enthusiasts, he participates in the design and realization of the program in the "Eskada" club.
2003. After 20 years of painstaking work, he finished his debut novel "Liberation", at the promotion of which he also hosted Edina Karamazova.
Along with his rich creative work, Sokolović did a lot to bring the same to the blind and partially sighted, as well as deaf and hard of hearing people, through special projects and audio-books, which made his works accessible to them.
2012. in Zenica, he founded the "Blue Palette" club, which in a short time became a small center of the cultural life of the region, with about a hundred cultural events realized so far, in which dozens of artists from all over the world were presented to the audience, both established and and those who are just at the beginning of their careers.
He was a participant in one of the oldest and most important poetry events in the former Yugoslavia - the Struga Poetry Evenings in 2011 and 2012, as well as Karaman's meetings in 2011 and 2012.
In 2013, he published the poetry collection "Era una canna allora" for the prestigious publisher Cassa editrice "Rocco Carabba".
In 2014, Sokolović received the prestigious Italian award "Citta di Sarzana" as the best foreign author, and in the same year he published the very ambitious and luxurious edition "Poetica demonica", which aroused great interest from the audience and critics.
Bibliography:
- "Where and why/ Dove e perche" - Edizione "Foreman" - Bergamo, collection of verses in 1983.
- "Bio je tada trska/ Una era canna allora" - collection of verses (bibliophile edition), 1998.
- "Paris - or it is futile to crucify Christ" - dramatic text (bibliophile edition), 1999.
- Anthology opowiedani SF narodow balkanskich" - "Balkan united" Poznan, 2009.
- "It is easy to attack the sky that is silent..." - collection of poems, 2011.
- "Poetry from five continents 2011" - collection of SVP participants
- "Poetry from five continents 2012" - collection of SVP participants
- "Era una canna allora" - cassa editrice "Rocco Corabba" Lanciano, Italy, 2013.
- "Poetica demonica" - "KULTura sNOVA" Zagreb, 2014.