Dragica RAJCIC

2009 Resident

Europe
Western Europe
Switzerland

Croatian

German

Dragica RAJCIC was born in Croatia and emigrated to Switzerland in 1978; returning in 1988, she fled back to Switzerland in 1991. A founder of Glas Kastela, a newspaper in Croatia, Rajcic has also published five books of poems, including Post Bellum (2000) and Buch von Glück (2004), and two plays: [‘A Bit of Cleanliness’] has been performed in Germany and Switzerland. Her literary awards include the Chamisso Scholarship and the Meran Poetry Prize. Her participation is co-sponsored by Pro Helvetia.

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Excerpts from the forthcoming volume of poems Exhausted on the Cross by Najwan DARWISH, in Kareem James Abu-Zeid’s translation from the Arabic and superbly introduced, can be read at The Paris Review blog.
Read and watch a lovely remembrance of Marvin BELL, Iowa’s first Poet Laureate, devoted friend of IWP, a mensch.
One of the four 2020 Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Big Other magazine, recognizing “innovative writers who shape the conversation about literary art, about language, form, structure, style,” goes to the distinguished Chinese novelist Can Xue 残雪.
Fiction writer and journalist THAWDA Aye Lei forwards a call for solidarity and protest by 125 independent Myanma writers against the military’s overthrow on 2/1/21, of a democratically elected government and the subsequent massive detentions. A call for release of those detained and for a reinstatement of Myanmar's democratically elected government has also been issued by PEN International.
For her novel Liebe um Liebe, Dragica RAJČIĆ is among this year's recipients of the significant Schweitzer Literaturpreis.

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