Igor Marojević (born 1968) is a Serbian writer.

Biography

Marojević was born in Vrbas, Serbia in 1968. Igor Marojević graduated from the Department of Serbian language and Literature, at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology. He received his M.A. in World Literature at the Universitat Autónoma in Barcelona. He published the novels Dvadeset četiri zida (Twenty Four Walls), Žega (Drought), Parter (Parterre), Šnit (Schnitt), Majčina ruka (Mother's Hand), Tuđine (The Otherness), Roman o pijanstvima (The Novel on Drunkenness), Prave Beograđanke (Real Belgrade Women) and Ostaci sveta (The Rests of the World) together with four books of stories Tragači (Seekers), Mediterani (Mediterraneans), Beograđanke (Women from Belgrade). and Sve za lepotu (All for Beauty). As an inspiration for the character in a novel "True Women from Belgrade" served Tanja Tatomirovic. His play Nomadi (Nomads), written in Spanish as Los nómadas was staged in Spain, in Terrassa and Bilbao. The adaptation of this play was staged in Serbia under the name Tvrđava Evropa (Fortress Europe) as a part of BELEF (Belgrade Summer Festival). The adaptation of his first novel was also staged in Serbian theater, in production of Beogradsko dramsko pozorište (Belgrade Theatre of Drama, 2003) which produced as well his second play, Bar sam svoj čovek (I'm My Own Man). His nouvelle Obmana Boga was translated to Spanish and Portuguese, his novels Partere and Šnit in Spanish and his play Nomadi to Catalan; his collections of stories was translated to Macedonian, Ukrainian, Slovenian and Hungarian. His works are included in Serbian or European prose anthologies in German, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian and Slovenian language. He is a member of Serbian and Catalan PEN centre and one of the founders of Srpsko književno društvo (Serbian Literature Society).

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