Authors

Marija Andrijašević (b. 1984, Split) holds an MA in Comparative Literature and Ethnology and Social Anthropology (2015) from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb.

In 2007, she won the Goran for Young Poets Award for her book of poetry davide, svašta su mi radili (David, They Did Things to Me). Her first novel, Zemlja bez sutona (The Land Without Twilight), was published in 2021. The novel received the Tportal Literary Award for Best Novel in 2022 and the Štefica Cvek Regional Award as one of the nine best novels published in 2021 in the BCSM-language countries. It was also shortlisted for several domestic awards.

In 2023, she published a poetry collection, Temeljenje kuće (Laying the Foundations), which received the Štefica Cvek Regional Award for one of the best books published in the region in 2024, as well as the biannual Ivan Goran Kovačić Award for Best Poetry Book, and was a finalist for the Tonko Maroević Award by the Croatian PEN Centre. 

Her latest publication, the short story collection Liga ribara (The League of Fishermen), was published in September 2024 and is shortlisted for the Štefica Cvek Award in 2025.


She is a member of Versopolis, a European platform for emerging poets. Her selected poetry has so far been translated into Swedish, German, Slovenian, Italian, Ukrainian, Polish, Romanian, Spanish, and Czech, and included in multiple anthologies. Her prose work is included in the anthology Ulysses’ Cat: New Writing from South-East Europe and Wales.

She works at Skribonauts, an organization that promotes literature among marginalized groups, and is a regular columnist for Novosti newspaper. She lives between Zagreb and Split.
 

Photo: (c) Iva Perković