Tanja Kragujević  (Тања Крагујевић)
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Tanja Kragujević  Тања Крагујевић
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* 1946, Senta (Vojvodina), Сербия
Место жительства: Belgrade, Сербия

Tanja Kragujević was born in 1946, in Senta in Vojvodina (northern Serbia). She graduated in Philology at the Belgrade University in 1970 and made her Master of Arts degree in Comparative Literature in 1973.

Her first collection of poetry appeared in 1966 in the ‘First Book’ serial of the publishing house Matica srpska (Novi Sad). Since then, Tanja Kragujević has published sixteen poetry collections, as well as several books of essays regarding both, Serbian and international contemporary poetry. Her latest poety collection The Bread of Roses was published by KOV (Vršac) in August 2012.

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Tanja Kragujević works as an editor for the Serbian publisher Agora (Novi Sad), presenting within the collection ‘Ariel’ remarkable world poets, recently e.g. poetry from Lucija Stupica, Tasos Livaditis, Sarah Kirsch, Stanislaw Barancak, H.M. Enzensberger, etc.

Her poetry and essays have been recognized in Serbia with quite a few awards. Her selected poems appeared at present in two books (2009 and 2010).

The poetry of Tanja Kragujević can be found in about thirty Serbian and foreign anthologies and collections of Contemporary Serbian Poetry, e.g. Poesia Serbia hoy, Debats (Institució Alfons el Magnànim, Valencia, n.109, 2010/4), Les Poètes de la Mediterannée (preface by Yves Bonnefoy, Gallimard & Culturesfrance, 2010); Hundert Gramm Seele The Anthology of Serbian Poetry of the Second Part of Twentieth Century (edited by Robert Hodel, Leipziger Literaturverlag, 2011), The Anthology of Serbian Poetry of XX and XXI Century (Herg Benet Publishers, Bucharest, 2012).

Tanja Kragujević has been invited to several poetry festivals, such as Struške večeri poezije (Macedonia), The Pushkin Days of Poetry (Russia) and The Poets’ Square (Budva, Montenegro). She also participated in poetry workshops in Literary Colony of Sićevo (Serbia, 1994), International Literary Colony in Čortanovci (Serbia, 2008) and at The First Transbalcan Poety Festival (Thessaloniki, 2012.)