Stig Mass Andersen is a writer, musician and journalist. As he started his career as a songwriter, he tries to enrich his literary expression with musical undertones. Besides being the title of the book, Bipolar Superstar is also the name of his band and his alter ego. He’s been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, from which his texts or music stem from.
Guillermo Arriaga (Mexico City, 1958) is a Mexican screenwriter and writer. He’s written four novels (The Guillotine Squad, A Sweet Scent of Death, Night Buffalo and The Savage) and a short-story collection (Retorno 201). Arriaga’s prose has been translated into many languages.
Arriaga doesn’t do adaptations of his prose for the screen nor does he write on commission. He’s written screenplays for the films Amores perros, 21 Grams, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (“The Palme d'Or” for the best screenplay at the Cannes International Film Festival, 2005), Babel (Academy Award nomination for the best screenplay, 2007), Night Buffalo and The Burning Plain.
A writer, publisher, journalist, persistent in the affirmation of Montenegrin multiculturalism. He sees the Balkans as a zone of tolerance and peaceful co-existence. He’s the founder of the first newspaper in the Albanian language in Montenegro – Kronika. He’s the founder and long-serving editor of the magazine for culture PLIMAplus. He’s also the founder of the branch of Matica crnogorska in Ulcinj. He’s a member of the Montenegrin Association of Independent Writers (CDNK). Some of his published works: Valdinos 33, a novel; Ulcinjska pisma, essays; Crnogorska krivica, political essays, Valdinos, stories. Čapuri, poems, Budim se sa tuđinom u sebi, poems; Montenegro i/ili Crna Gora, essays; Monahos, essay; Raznosači kostiju, essays; Kosa mu je blistala, modra, svilenkasta, stories.
Bojan Babić was born in 1977. So far he has written seven books, been awarded the Borislav Pekić Foundation Prize, participated in a few residential programmes for writers abroad, been short-listed for the NIN and some other prizes, had his stories published in English, Swedish, Albanian, Icelandic, German. Late in 2016 the publishing house Glagoslav published his book Girls, Be Good in Nataša Miljković’s translation. He doesn’t let his sentences relax.
Stefan Bošković was born in Podgorica on 15th February 1983. In 2010 he graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Cetinje.
He has published the novel Šamaranje which won The Prize for the Best Unpublished Novel. His short stories and dramas have been published in several magazines and anthologies. His stories have been translated into English, Russian and Slovenian.
Co-screenwriter of the feature film Ispod mosta, na travi, među stijenama, 2016.
Screenwriter of the short live action film Umir krvi directed by Senad Šahmanović, 2014.
creenwriter of the documentary films Dado Đurić, 2012. Žive oči, 2014. Vice Verse, 2015.
Performed dramatic texts U ljubavnom trouglu, Komad i Galeb.
Dimitrije Bukvić (Belgrade, 1985) is a sociologist and a journalist for Politika Daily. His short stories have been published in magazines and anthologies in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Croatia. He won the first prize at the festival for young writers Srpsko pero (Jagodina, 2013) and in the short-story competition organized by the Public Library of Bor (2013) and Miodrag Borisavljević (Apatin, 2014). He’s a co-author of the book Kafanološki astal/Karirani stolnjak (2014) with Dragoljub B. Đorđević (2014). For the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) he has written about the problems of cultural politics in the region. His scientific papers have been published in professional magazines in Serbia and Montenegro.
Vladimir Bulatović was born in Belgrade in 1979. He has published two short-story collections: Duhovi satire (Presing, 2013) and Elvira je sanjala (Književna Radionica Rašić, 2015). He works as a solo singing teacher at a music school.
Jasna Dimitrijević (1979, Negotin, SFRY) writes short prose and reviews. Some of these get published in regional magazines and anthologies. She has written the short-story collection Prepoznavanja (2015). Works in a bookshop.
Đura Đukanov (1956-2000) was a Serbian writer of short stories and dramas. As a native of Mokrin, he is one of the most significant representatives of the twentieth-century prose of Banat. Apart from Mokrin, he lived in Vršac and Novi Sad. He published the following books: Đavolska snevačina (1979), Domaći Sapun (1982), Slatkovodna Neman (1985), Luda pali sveće (1988), Voz Svetog Petra (1990), Dnevnik Vilijama Vilsona (1997) and Dvogled bez stakala (2000, posthumously).
