TOMICA BAJSIĆ
THURSDAY 29 – SATURDAY 31 JULY, PASSAGE Festival invites you for a morning coffee together with three poets and original voices, that most of us have never heard. PASSAGE Festival has started a collaboration with the Slovenian festival Days of Poetry and Wine, located in the city of Ptuj in the borderland between Slovenia, Croatia, Austria and Hungary. Read more about the collaboration here
Tomica Bajsić was born in 1968 in Zagreb, Croatia. A poet, prose writer, graphic artist, and translator, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. He has published five poetry books, two prose books, and a picture book. His poems have been translated into 20 languages in various international publications, literary magazines, chapbooks and anthologies like The Hundred Years’ War by Bloodaxe Books and most recently, Grand Tour Europe in Poems by German Academy. He was reading his work on many distinguished poetry festivals in Europe, Latin America and Asia.
His first poetry book Southern Cross was greeted as the most unique anti-war testimony in verse in Croatian literature, awarded with national prize for young authors and published also in Slovenian.
His recent poetry collection with drawings, Nevidljivo more / Invisible Sea, was published in 2018. His honors include the Ivan Goran Kovačić and Dobriša Cesarić Awards and the National Award for Poetry.
Tomica Bajsić was a longtime editor for poetry in translation of the Croatian literary magazine Poezija.
About the translator
Alen Mešković is Danish-Bosnian writer and translator. He was born in Bosnia in 1977 and has lived in Denmark since 1994. His debut was the critically acclaimed collection of poems Første gang tilbage (Back for the first time) in 2009. His first novel, Ukulele-jam (Ukulele Jam) from 2011 was nominated for the literary award Weekendavisens Litteraturpris and sold for publishing in eight countries, including Germany and UK. It is also being staged as a play in Germany (2016-19) and Bosnia (2020-). In 2012, Alen Mešković was awarded a 3-year working grant by the Danish Arts Foundation for the novel. One-Man Tent is a stand-alone sequel of Ukulele Jam and is published in three countries.
THURSDAY 29 – SATURDAY 31 JULY, PASSAGE Festival invites you for a morning coffee together with three poets and original voices, that most of us have never heard. PASSAGE Festival has started a collaboration with the Slovenian festival Days of Poetry and Wine, located in the city of Ptuj in the borderland between Slovenia, Croatia, Austria and Hungary. Read more about the collaboration here
Tomica Bajsić was born in 1968 in Zagreb, Croatia. A poet, prose writer, graphic artist, and translator, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. He has published five poetry books, two prose books, and a picture book. His poems have been translated into 20 languages in various international publications, literary magazines, chapbooks and anthologies like The Hundred Years’ War by Bloodaxe Books and most recently, Grand Tour Europe in Poems by German Academy. He was reading his work on many distinguished poetry festivals in Europe, Latin America and Asia.
His first poetry book Southern Cross was greeted as the most unique anti-war testimony in verse in Croatian literature, awarded with national prize for young authors and published also in Slovenian.
His recent poetry collection with drawings, Nevidljivo more / Invisible Sea, was published in 2018. His honors include the Ivan Goran Kovačić and Dobriša Cesarić Awards and the National Award for Poetry.
Tomica Bajsić was a longtime editor for poetry in translation of the Croatian literary magazine Poezija.
About the translator
Alen Mešković is Danish-Bosnian writer and translator. He was born in Bosnia in 1977 and has lived in Denmark since 1994. His debut was the critically acclaimed collection of poems Første gang tilbage (Back for the first time) in 2009. His first novel, Ukulele-jam (Ukulele Jam) from 2011 was nominated for the literary award Weekendavisens Litteraturpris and sold for publishing in eight countries, including Germany and UK. It is also being staged as a play in Germany (2016-19) and Bosnia (2020-). In 2012, Alen Mešković was awarded a 3-year working grant by the Danish Arts Foundation for the novel. One-Man Tent is a stand-alone sequel of Ukulele Jam and is published in three countries.
Download Tomica Bajsić's poems here:
Original language as well as Danish and English translation:
Tomica Bajsic poems PASSAGE Festival 2021