Marija Fekete-Sullivan was born n 1965 in Sarajevo. She has written 50 stories for children, and adapted a further 20 stories for the book Zlatne bosanske bajke (Golden Bosnian Fairy Tales). She writes principally for children, but also for adults.
Her first book, The Mermaid's Dream, was published in Singapore. The British poet Adrian Mitchell said of it, “The stories which make up The Mermaid's Dream are in the tradition of the great Hans Christian Andersen. They are told - by Marija Fekete Sullivan - with gentle humour and rare imagination, but most of all, with love - they are love stories for children and for all adults who understand children.'
Marija wrote the Bosnian and English text of the bilingual book Zaljubljeni vuk/The Wolf in Love, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s first interactive digital picture book and video game. The book offers educational audiovisual content for children, especially children with development difficulties.
Within her digital publishing project, Style Writes Now, Marija has independently published more than 100 stories by more than 50 authors from Bosnia and Herzegovina, mainly in English translation.
Marija has been recognised as a distinguished independent artist in her native city of Sarajevo. She is the recipient of multiple awards and was nominated for the 2021 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.
Prema riječima autorice, slikovnica „Poruke prijateljstva“ je svojevrsna vježbenica, jer se u njoj vježba prijateljstvo, komunikacija, te pretvaranje mašte u stvarnost.
You set the price!
Words: 1,330.
Language:
Croatian.
Published: February 16, 2017 by
Style Writes Now.
Categories:
Fiction » Fairy tales
Everyone has a right to choose clothes they like best (as long as they are warm enough and affordable), and so does our little penguin Snowfrock. - Svi mi imamo pravo izabrati odjeću koja nam se sviđa (ako je dovoljno topla i ako je možemo priuštiti), pa tako i naš mali pingvin Snjegofrak.
Pirate Zlobic had such luck! He was hit by a little meteorite – not once, but twice! First it happened by chance, while he was planning to rob yet another ship. And then, the second time a heavenly creature came down, it was Meteo Rita. She wanted to bring her little brother Meteo Rite back home.
P i c t u r e B o o k
'Mamma Snäcka bodde i pärlornas rike, på botten av den djupaste oceanen. Mamma Snäcka hade en hemlighet, en hemlighet som gjorde henne mycket lycklig: Hennes mun gömde en liten sten som var grön som en smaragd och vit som en pärla – en smaragd- pärla! Ingen hade någonsin sett en sådan märklig sten förut.'
Illustrationer: Anna-Lena Fältsjö
There is an oak tree in the vicinity of Sarajevo where couples in love like to go a few days before their weddings. This tree is called Rujana's Hair, and the couples visit it for their final vows of devotion.
A children's play, humorous, entertaining.
Mums, dads and teachers might also enjoy reading this.
Inspired by motifs presented in the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm.
These are photos, pictures, that stay with us wherever we go. There are twelve 'wallet photos' in this collection mainly set in Sarajevo.
Genre: short stories
‘Sarajevo Walls of Fate’ is an urban ‘architectural fairy tale’, a hundred-year journey through war and peace, until a mystery is resolved and broken walls stop screaming.
A fairy tale. Illustrations by Sanela Husic - Musabasic.
Once upon a time there lived a little girl. Her hair was sharp like straw and it was the colour of straw too. Her teeth were wide apart. Her nose was long and bent like chili. Her skin was hard because of the harsh wind which blew in the place where she lived...
A fairy tale about the magic of reading
by Marija Fekete-Sullivan.
Illustrations by Sanela Husic - Musabasic
In the kingdom of talking parrots, there lived a cruel King. Every night, a different parrot had to visit the ruler and tell him a story. If the King didn't like the story, his guest was wrapped in jungle-leaves and thrown into the nearby river...
Dicen que el duende del bolsillo pellizca y tranquiliza todos los corazones, especialmente los de los niños --- Colaboración en traducción y adaptación: Diana Morillas Artista - Lanjaron
Some children believe that the Snowman came from a white penguin. Long, long ago, there lived a white penguin on the coast of the coldest sea. Like a snowman, he lived just to play.
Winter's children used to call him Snowfrock.
A fairy tale by Marija F.Sullivan
Illustrations: Rifat Sahman
A fairy tale. Illustrations by Maha Fouad.
Two turtles, Ji and Ja, are very much in love, but their only problem is that that they walk in the opposite direction.
Cover art: Rose Macleod.
The picture book got together illustrators from seventeen countries around the world who contributed artwork to accompany the story.
This is a unique and beautiful tale that resolves the mermaid's age-old dilemma of where to live, on the sea or on the land.
Blacky und ich wurden ein ungewöhnliches Paar. Morgens und abends geht er mit mir Gassi, wenn ich von der Arbeit zurückkomme, essen wir zusammen und schauen uns mit gewisser Sorge gegenseitig an. Ich meine einen vertrauten Gesichtsausdruck in ihm zu entdecken.
What if the serial killer in the newspaper looks exactly like you? A pregnant lady sees 'herself' in the newspaper and in such a special state of body and mind she poses many questions about her future. Luckily, she has faithful friends who can see the difference between raw diamonds and the real ones.
A character-based, very, very short story, with some magic realism in it. A person is standing in front of automatic door and the door doesn’t register her at all. Is she becoming a ghost, invisible? And does she really care about it?