Berlin Fellowship 2018 — Literature
Vita
Adisa Bašić has published four collections of poetry and one book of fiction. She teaches poetry and creative writing at the Sarajevo Faculty of Philosophy. Her book Promotivni spot za moju domovinu [A Promo Clip for My Homeland] won the international Bank Austria Literaris award and has been translated into German.
Awards, Fellowships, Prizes (selection)
2018
Fellowship, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
2017
Artist in residence, Museumsquartier, Vienna
2017
Open Society Foundations, scholarship for academic research on Eros and Humor in South Slavic Lyric Poetry
2012
Bank Austria Literaris, an international award for the best volume of poetry in Central and Southeastern Europe, 2010 and 2011
2011
Book award from the Association of Publishers and Booksellers of Bosnia and Herzegovina for Promotivni spot za moju domovinu (Commercial for My Homeland), a volume of poetry
Publications (selection)
2017
Nicht Dämon, nicht Märtyrer, sondern Mensch
https://ba.boell.org/de/2017/12/21/nicht-daemon-nicht-maertyrer-sondern-mensch
2014
"Neue Literatur aus Bosnien-Herzegowina" (a selection and an introduction), Lichtungen, Zeitschrift für Literatur, Kunst und Zeitkritik 137/XXXV. Jg./2014
2014
"Mama, Papa, der Jahrgang 1914 und ich (um Gavrilo erst gar nicht zu erwähnen)", Beton International: Zeitung für Literatur und Gesellschaft, vol. 11, March 2014, no. 1
2012
Promotivni spot za moju domovinu / Ein Werbespot für meine Heimat, (bilingual, German translation: Cornelia Marks), Klagenfurt: Wieser Verlag
2012
"Adagio für Aida" (essay), Bibliothek Sarajevo: Literarische Vermessung einer Stadt, Klagenfurt: Drava Verlag
Independent volumes of poetry
2014
Motel neznanih junaka (poetry), Sarajevo: Dobra knjiga
2010
Promotivni spot za moju domovinu (poetry), Sarajevo: Dobra knjiga
2004
Trauma-market (poetry), Sarajevo: Omnibus
1999
Evas Sätze (poetry), Sarajevo: Omnibus
Prose and Essays
2017
A ti zaključaj: priče o ljubavima i brakovima (Und du schließt hinter mir zu: Geschichten über Liebe und Ehe), Sarajevo: Buybook
2015
"Fall and Recovery in Five Easy Steps", Fall and Rise, American Style: Eight International Writers Between Gettysburg and the Gulf, Bloomington: Autumn Hill Books