Biography

SENADIN MUSABEGOVIĆ was born in Sarajevo in 1970. During the siege of Sarajevo, he served in the army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and also worked as a journalist for the BH Press. He began publishing poetry, essays and stories during the war. Since then, he has published three books of poetry in Bosnian: Body Strikes (1995), The Maturing of Homeland (1999), and The Heavenly Sphere (2004). The Maturing of Homeland was translated into French and Italian, while numerous other works were translated into seven languages. In 1999, he received the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Writers’ Association Award for his collection of essays, as well as the Planjax Award for his book of poetry.

A graduate of Sienna University in Italy, Musabegović read political philosophy. In 2004, he presented his doctorate thesis, “War — Reconstruction of the Totalitarian Body” at the European Institute in Florence. He has held lectures as a guest professor at European and American universities. Currently, he works as a professor at the School of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo, where he teaches courses in cultural sociology and art theory.

Born in Sarajevo, ULVIJA TANOVIĆ has lived and traveled around the world. She graduated from the Department of English Language and Literature (Faculty of Philosophy) in Sarajevo, and also received a Diploma in American Studies from Smith College in America. She began working as a translator in 1997, translating a great variety of texts, from building reconstruction plans to film scripts. For the past three years, she has become increasingly involved in literary translation. She has translated prose and poetry for literary magazines such as Odjek, Lica, Diwan, and Sarajevo Notebooks.