Monika Herceg

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Idioma: croata

Traducciones: inglés (tiny deaths)

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glasno dišemo zbog nesnosne sparine
spavajući u istoj sobi
tjeskoba je teža od zraka
ispuni prostor poput ugljičnog dioksida
pa se pogušimo u košmaru
u očevom se snu koti praznina
kao zlatice na krumpiru
dok u potpunosti ne unište nasade
svako malo nakašlje se
poput mačka koji izbacuje
klupko dlaka
brat škrguće zubima
majka je nepomična
stisnutih usnica
nalik na sliku gospe kojoj se moli
nekad se nagnem nad njeno lice
da provjerim diše li

osluškujem i
kako prerastamo već tijesne cipele
kako nam tamni kosa
i troši se hrskavica dok trčimo
vani izgara atmosfera
a u nama gore dječja tijela
kao rođendanske svjećice
dovoljno brzo da se ujutro
ne sjećamo

Monika Herceg

Foto © Tanja Draškić Savić

* 19.10.1990, Sisak, Croacia
Vive en: Zagreb, Croacia

Monika Herceg (born 1990, in Sisak) is a poet, playwright, editor, feminist and popular science activist from Croatia. She is a prominent young poet of a new generation in Croatia and the most awarded young author in recent Croatian history.

She grew up near Petrinja, is studying physics at the University of Rijeka and raises two kids in Zagreb.

In 2017 she won Goran the most prominent award for young authors in Croatia. As a result her first book was published in 2018 to critical acclaim and has since won the Kvirin Award, the Fran Galović Award, the Slavić Award and the international award Mostovi Struge. That made her literary debut the most awarded poetry book in Croatian history. Her second book Lovostaj (The Closed Season) appeared in 2019. The manuscript won the Na vrh jezika award for best unpublished poetry volume in 2018.

Foto © Tanja Draškić Savić

Internationally she won the second prize of the International Poetry Competition Castello di Duino in Italy back in 2016 and in 2018 The Bridges of Struga award for young authors from Mostovi Struge festival in Macedonia. In 2021 she won the Fierce Women Award for her activism.

Her work has been translated into more than ten languages and published in some of the most important magazines. She is a part of Versopolis, a platform for the promotion of young European authors. Trilingual poetry chapbooks have been published in Lithuania and Austria. A selection of works has been published in French, too: “Ciel sous tension”, L’Ollave, 2019.

Her stories were awarded with several regional and national awards, such as the Biber Award and the Lapis Histriae.

Her drama Gdje se kupuju nježnosti (Where to Buy Tenderness) was awarded by the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb. She has also received the Marin Držić award, the most important award for drama plays in Croatia (for Kill Yourself, Dear Father).

She is a member of the Croatian Writers' Society and in the editorial board of their magazine.

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