Vladan Matijević

Vladan Matijević (Serbian-Cyrillic: Владан Матијевић; born 16 November 1962 in Čačak, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian writer and poet.

Life and Work

Vladan Matijević worked for eighteen years as an engineer in a chemical base factory after completing his university education. Since 2005, he has been working as directing editor of the publications of the Nadežda Petrović Gallery in his native town, where he still lives in a suburb today. He said in an interview with the Austrian newspaper Der Standard about himself that he tries to write as little as possible. Nevertheless, he has already created a considerable and well-respected literary work, which has been discussed in more than fifty reviews and essays of Serbian literary journals. Many of his much sold novels have been published for several times in Serbia, his internationally most successfull novel Moments of Joy has been published in French (two editions in 2007 and 2008), Spanish (2008), German (2009), Italian (2014) and Macedonian (2015) translation. In 2009, he took part in the event New Literature from Serbia by the Austrian literary society Podium and read from the original Serbian version of his novel Moments of Joy on the small stage of the Viennese coffee house Prückel. The sequence presented by him was subsequently read by an actress in German translation. In 2011, a collection of four short stories has been published as a multilingual edition in Albanian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Romanian. In the same year, he was an invited participant of the Salon international du livre de Québec, the Leipzig Book Fair and the multinational event of the so-called cultural program Literature in Flux, organized by the HALMA Network in collaboration with the International Canetti Society. There were readings on board of various ships in the harbors of some European cities along the Danube, he read in Ruse, Cetate, Belgrade, Novi Sad and Budapest. In 2014, an English edition of his novel Very Little Light has been published by Geopoetika publishing in Belgrade. Matijević is multiple laureate of some major literary awards of Serbia and he is considered as one of the most important contemporary authors in his country. In 2016, the writer Aleksandar Gatalica had a half-hour conversation with him in a broadcast of the program series Literary Dialogue (Književni dijalog), which has been recorded for RTS. He was participant of the Beijing International Book Fair 2017.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

Finally, the author of many profound stories about people and our time shall be cited again:

„Since the second half of the 20th century, there are graduate marketing professionals in all areas of life. Advertising has become the greatest need of each person, it does not know any toothpaste to use, nor any food to eat, nor in what bed it wants to sleep until it is explained to the person by an advertising expert. I notice that today it is especially important that is something inexpensive. And that's why everything became cheap. Such are our lives as well. Soon they will also go on sale. With the emergence of the internet, the phenomenon of advertising has reached its peak.“[11]

Bibliography

  • Ne remeteći rasulo (Don’t Disturb the Chaos), poetry, Dom omladine, Zaječar 1991.
  • Van kontrole (Out of Control), novel, Dečje novine, Gornji Milanovac 1995.
  • R. C. neminovno (R. C. Unavoidably), novel, Rad, Belgrade 1997, ISBN 86-09-00472-4
  • Samosvođenje (Self-reduction), poetry, Multigraf, Čačak 1999.
  • Prilično mrtvi (Pretty Dead), short stories, Narodna knjiga - Alfa, Belgrade 2000.
  • Pisac izdaleka (Writer from Afar), novel, Narodna knjiga - Alfa, Belgrade 2003, ISBN 86-331-1017-2.
  • Časovi radosti (Moments of Joy), novel, Narodna knjiga - Alfa, Belgrade 2006, ISBN 86-331-2867-5.[12][13]
  • Žilavi komadi (Tough Plays), dramas, Gradac K, Čačak 2009, ISBN 978-86-83507-64-1.
  • Vrlo malo svetlosti (Very Little Light), novel, Agora, Zrenjanin 2010, ISBN 978-86-6053-058-7.
  • Memoari, amnezije : eseji, besede, beleške (Memoirs, Amnesias: Essays, Words, Notes), Službeni glasnik, Belgrade 2012, ISBN 978-86-519-1288-0.
  • Pristaništa (Ports), short stories, Agora, Zrenjanin 2014, ISBN 978-86-6053-130-0.
  • Susret pod neobičnim okolnostima (Meeting Under Unusual Circumstances), novel, Laguna, Belgrade 2016, ISBN 978-86-521-2264-6.

Awards

References

  1. ↑ Official website of Vladan Matijević, retrieved on 2018-09-24.
  2. ↑ Biography and Work on the website of the Italian literary agency Tempi irregolari, retrieved on 2018-09-24.
  3. ↑ Interview of the newspaper Der Standard, retrieved on 2018-09-24.
  4. ↑ Notification of the event in Vienna (2009), website of Prückel, retrieved on 2018-09-26.
  5. ↑ Report of Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph, retrieved on 2018-09-24.
  6. ↑ Flyer of Leipzig Book Fair 2011 (p. 24), retrieved on 2018-09-24.
  7. ↑ Program of Literature in Flux 2011, website of the Canetti Society, retrieved on 2018-09-29.
  8. ↑ HALMA European Network of Literary Centres, official website, retrieved on 2018-09-29.
  9. ↑ Književni dijalog on YouTube, retrieved on 2018-09-24.
  10. ↑ Potraga za živim zmajem u Pekingu (The search for a living dragon in Beijing), article of Gloria magazine, retrieved on 2018-10-01.
  11. ↑ Interview of Vreme, retrieved on 2018-09-24.
  12. ↑ English synopsis of the Italian literary agency Tempi Irregolari, retrieved on 2018-09-24.
  13. ↑ German synopsis of the Austrian radio station Ö1, retrieved on 2018-09-24.
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