Monika Herceg

Monika Herceg (born in Sisak, Croatia, 1990) won the 2017 Goran Award for Young Poets for her debut manuscript, Po etne koordinate/Initial Coordinates, which was published in 2018 and receiving several awards, including the Kvirin Award (for young poets), the Slavic Award for the best debut, & the international Bridges of Struga Award. Her next books were Lovostaj/The Closed Season (also winning awards) (2019), & Cile tous tension (selected pomes), pub. in France (2019). In late 2020 she won a...See more

Monika Herceg (born in Sisak, Croatia, 1990) won the 2017 Goran Award for Young Poets for her debut manuscript, Po etne koordinate/Initial Coordinates, which was published in 2018 and receiving several awards, including the Kvirin Award (for young poets), the Slavic Award for the best debut, & the international Bridges of Struga Award. Her next books were Lovostaj/The Closed Season (also winning awards) (2019), & Cile tous tension (selected pomes), pub. in France (2019). In late 2020 she won a dramatic competition and had a play premiered in Zagreb during December, 2020. She is also a coeditor of the Croatian literary magazine Tema. She makes her GobQ debut with several poems published in parallel text, in Croatian, English, Spanish, Lithaunian, Russian, Finnish, Portuguese, and Tagalog: zmijske smrti/snake deaths/Gyva i mirtys/ /käärmeiden kuolemat/morte de cobra/muertes de serpientes/Ahas ng kamatayan; nasljedne bolesti/ hereditary diseases/enfermedades hereditarias /arfgengir sjúkdómar/ doenças hereditárias/perinnölliset sairaudet; sitne smrti/tiny deaths/ /muertes diminutas; Lisica/fox/Refur/zorro; ze je smrti/rabbit deaths muertes del conejo/Kamatayan ng mga kuneho See less