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Ana Brnardić

tajna

  • 1 aerodrom | Translations: bgcaenesglslsv
  • 2 julija | Translations: enslsv
  • 3 kuća u miamisburgu | Translations: caenesglslsv
  • 4 misli se odmaraju | Translations: enslsv
  • 5 nesanica | Translations: enslsv
  • 6 pisanje na tipkama | Translations: enroslsv
  • 7 ravnica | Translations: enslsv
  • 8 tajna | Translations: enslsv
  • 9 tamni glasnik | Translations: slsv
  • 10 terorist | Translations: enslsv
Language: croatian
Translations: english (SECRET), slovenian (SKRIVNOST), swedish (HEMLIGHETEN)
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tajna

Sastavila sam grobnu tajnu
da ponekad, krišom, odem živjeti u drugu zemlju
u tuđoj kuhinji gulim češnjak i kuham kavu
odlazim do manastira i palim svijeću
iza plota sabor breza na gluhom jeziku
lice se podvaja u zrcalu
okruglo i tužno prevlači se zlatnim pojanjem

noću napuštam tijelo, prste, svlačim koru
u hladnoj spavaonici vjetar nas dugom bradom pokriva
ujutro sam mlado drvo posađeno pred kućom
gola kost iz koje postaje dan

© Ana Brnardić
From: Postanak ptica
Zagreb: Hrvatsko društvo pisaca, 2009
Audio production: Croatian PEN Centre
Categories: identity (personal), plants

Translations:

Language: english

SECRET

I have composed a mortal secret
To live sometimes secretly in another country
Peeling off garlic and boiling coffee in somebody else’s kitchen
Walking to the monastery lighting up a candle
In the backyard a congregation of birches converse in silent tongues
The face splits up in a mirror
Round and sad it veils itself with golden chanting
 
Come night I leave my body, my fingers, I peel off bark
In the cold dorm the wind covers us with its long beard
Come morning I am a young tree planted in front of the house
A naked bone giving birth to daylight

Translated into English by Damir Šodan
Translation published in: www.versopolis.com
Language: slovenian

SKRIVNOST

Sestavila sem grobno skrivnost
da včasih, skrivaj, odidem živet v drugo državo
v tuji kuhinji lupim česen in kuham kavo
hodim do samostana in prižgem svečo
za plotom shod bréz v gluhem jeziku
obraz se podvaja v ogledalu
okrogel in žalosten se prevleče z zlatim petjem

ponoči zapuščam telo, prste, slačim skorjo
v mrzli spalnici naju veter prekriva z dolgo brado
zjutraj sem mlado drevo, posajeno pred hišo
gola kost, iz katere nastaja dan

prevod: Višnja Fičor
Objavljeno v: Nastanek ptic, Dnevi poezije in vina, Beletrina, 2016
Language: swedish

HEMLIGHETEN

Jag har knåpat ihop en gravallvarlig hemlighet
om att ibland, i smyg, bosätta mig i ett annat land
i någon annans kök skalar jag vitlök och kokar kaffe
jag går till klostret och tänder ett ljus
bakom staketet en björkförsamling med ett stumt språk
ansiktet klyvs i spegeln
runt och sorgset höljer det sig i gyllene mässång

om natten lämnar jag kroppen, fingrarna, drar av mig skalet
i den kalla sovsalen bäddas vi ner under vindens långa skägg
på morgonen är jag ett ungträd som planterats framför huset
en benknota ur vilken dagen föds

Översättning: Djordje Zarkovic
i: Fåglarnas tillblivelse, Rámus förlag, Malmö, Švedska, 2016
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Ana Brnardić

photo © Nikola Kuprešanin
* 18.07.1980, Zagreb, Croatia
lives in: Zagreb, Croatia

Ana Brnardić was born in Zagreb in 1980. She holds a M.A. in Comparative Literature and Croatian Language and Literature (University of Zagreb) and a M.A. in Music (violin; Music Academy in Zagreb). She has published four volumes of poetry - Pisaljka nekog mudraca (1998), Valcer zmija (2005), Postanak ptica (2009) and Uzbrdo (2015) -  which received several prestigious Croatian awards for poetry.

 photo © Nikola Kuprešanin
Her poems were translated into English, Italian, Catalan, Galician, Spanish, Romanian, Swedish, Albanian, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Hungarian etc. Selected poemes, translated into Romanian by Dumitru M. Ion, were published under the title "Hotel cu muzicieni" in Bucharest, Romania, in 2009. The book "Postanak ptica" was translated into Swedish by Djordje Zarkovic and published by Rámus förlag (Sweden, 2016). 

Ana Brnardić translates modern and contemporary poetry and prose from Romanian into Croatian language and takes part in the EU project Versopolis. 
She lives in Zagreb.

Publications
  • Pisaljka nekog mudraca

    knjiga pjesama

    Zagreb: SKUD "Ivan Goran Kovačić", 1998

  • Valcer zmija

    Sisak: Matica Hrvatska, 2005

  • Hotel cu muzicieni

    [Selected pomes, translated into Romanian by Dumitru M. Ion]

    Bucharest, Romania: 2009

  • Postanak ptica

    Zagreb: h.d.p. [Hrvatsko društvo pisaca], 2009

  • Uzbrdo

    Zagreb: V.B.Z., 2015

  • Fåglarnas tillblivelse

    ["Postanak ptica", translated into Swedish Djordje Zarkovic]

    Malmö, Sweden: Rámus förlag, 2016

  • Vuk i breza

    knjiga pjesama

    Hena com, 2019

Awards
  • Goran Award for young poets

  • Slavić Award for poetry debut

  • Thy City of Sisak Award

  • Kvirin Award for young poets

Links
  • Ana Brnardić @ Versopolis

    more poems with translations into English

    Website
  • Postanak ptica (online edition, 2014)

    Website

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