In the second part of the evening, organized by the Mostar National Library, the promotion of the book "The Bridge on
Drina" by Andrej Nikolaidis.
Andrej Nikolaidis, a prominent Bosnian and Montenegrin writer, was born in 1974 in
Sarajevo, and since 1992 he lives in Ulcinj. His works have been recognized and awarded; among other things,
He received the European Union Prize for Literature in 2011 for his novel "Son", and for "Hungarian Sentence"
In 2017, he received the Meša Selimović Award. In 2024, his novel Anomaly won the English PEN Award.
and. For the novel "Procrastination. Paresis" he received the Montenegrin state prize Miroslav's Gospel, and for
“Chronicle of Doom”, a collection of columns published on CdM, the Thirteenth of July Award.
"Even after twenty years of writing, Andrei Nikolaidis manages to write better book after better one."
In his works, Nikolaidis tries to understand the spirit of the times, tries to understand it in a primordial way.
empathy. He is a serious writer in that he searches for forms and refines those forms to please the reader.
– not in terms of taste but in terms of reader availability. Because, why do we write books if we don't want them to
"Does anyone read them? Why are we looking for a metaphor if we don't want anyone to learn something new from it?" he pointed out.
Kenan Efendić, promoter and editor of the book Bridge on the Drina.
“The painful history is an integral part of the identity of all of us from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Regardless of the discomfort we
each of us feels every time we return to those stories, it is necessary to talk about it. In the days when
As we mark the anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, it is especially important to remember, and this book does just that.
.
Nikolaidis emphasized that this is the first work in which he writes from the perspective of the narrator. “That I could
It took me half a century to try to write from a woman's perspective. I don't get into it easily.
"writing, and I consider the act of writing itself extremely important," he added.
The next event within the Mostar Summer event is the play "Hasanaginica". The play will be
to be held on July 12, 2025 at the National Theater Mostar, starting at 8:00 PM.
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