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Editor’s Welcome
Planet of the Wise
(150,000 copies sold),
Plato the
Gaffe
(100,000 copies sold), and
When Beauty Saves Us.
His books are translated in 13 countries. Elle Magazine calls
his new novel
Joy
(excerpted here), “A dizzying novel, that
turns our way of seeing the world upside down.”
Milorad Pejić
(born in Tuzla, former Yugoslavia (now Bosnia
and Herzegovina), 1960) has lived in Sweden since 1992.
He has published several books of poems. His collection,
Hyperborea
(2011, 2013), was awarded by the Writers’
Association of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the City of Sarajevo,
the PEN Center in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the Mak Dizdar
Foundationwith the newly established prize “SlovoMakovo
- Mak Dizdar” in November 2012 for the best poetic work
published the previous year in the Bosnian, Montenegrin,
Croatian, and Serbian language.
Enjoy!
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