Dusk was slowly descending over the town. The rain had finally stopped, but the sky was still covered with heavy gray clouds. It was Friday, the last day of November. Even though Maya was cold, she still wandered around persistently. For a while, she walked along the trail by the Yser River. Her gaze wandered […]
Dragana Kršenković Brković
DRAGANA KRŠENKOVIĆ BRKOVIĆ plays with the conventions of narrative, time, space, and traditional art forms. Her work engages with questions of memory, gender, and identity within the context of patriarchal history and the power of culture. She is also interested in exploring the role of ancient heritage in the alienation and loneliness of modern individuals. She is the author of three novels, two story collections, nonfiction works, and fairy tales. Her fiction has appeared in October Hill Magazine, Bosphorus Review of Books, The Hooghly Review, TOPIC: literature - culture - context, Buchkultur, Sarajevo Notebooks, Blesok, ARS, Lingua Montenegrina, etc. She has been awarded fellowships by various cultural institutions, including Apexart (NYC), Art OMI: Writers (NY), UNESCO (Rhodes), Goethe-Institute (Leipzig), HHH (California & Washington, D.C.), KulturKontakt Austria (Vienna), OeAD-GmbH (Graz), among others. She is a member of the Montenegrin PEN Center and the Montenegrin Association of Independent Writers.
