Tamara Capelj

Tamara Capelj was born on 2 October 1969 in Novi Sad, Serbia. After graduating from the Srednja pedagoska akademija (the high school for pedagogy) she came to Sarajevo to study Yugoslavistics and the Literatures of the South Slav Peoples. She also researches linguistics, and is one of three authors of a textbook for proofreaders/language editors in the field of legislation, published in 2013. She is a founding member of the artist’s society Planet Poezija (Planet Poetry), which gathers artists from Bosnia and Herzegovina who want to stay politically neutral and independent. She organises literary events and manifestations, and is in charge of the Sarajevo branch of the international cultural project Pjesnickom rijecju: STOP NASILJU NAD ZENAMA (Through the Words of Poets: STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN). She is also the director of the Sarajevo branch of the international literary festival Cetiri godisnja doba knjizevnosti (Four Seasons in Literature), which takes place in four cities: Sveti Ivan Zelina (Croatia), Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Pancevo (Serbia) and Ljubljana (Slovenia). She has had her poetry and other literary works published in magazines throughout the region, and has edited several books of poetry. She authored two collections of poems – Venerina orbita (Venus’ Orbit) in 2015, and Zeljezna (Iron-like) in 2018 – and her collection of short stories, Nevidljivi tragovi (Invisible Traces), was published in 2017.

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