Ana Marija Grbić | Lucija Klarić | Kamov Residency

Ana Marija Grbić

Ana Maria Grbic was born in 1987 in Belgrade. She studied comparative literature and is currently engaged in PhD study on literature. She is one of the creators of the organization ARGH! from Belgrade that every month, for the past six years, gathers poets from Serbia on Poetry Evenings. She was awarded by the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade for dramatic contribution in 2006.

In addition to writing, she is engaged in drawing and in 2011 she had her first exhibition of poetic comics Ovde se nešto desilo / Something happened here. In 2012 she published her first collection of poems in the edition 'Prvenac (Da, ali nemoj se plašiti)'. In late 2014, her second collection of poems was published by the publishing house LOM, Venerini i ostali bregovi / Venus's and other mounds, that entered the final selection of the award Biljana Jovanovic. Her poetry has been translated into Polish, Slovenian and Russian and has been published in many journals and anthologies in Serbia and the region. She has collaborated on several films and radio plays. Currently, she is working on her first novel, she is engaged in translating and preparing for publishing two of her original books of poetry.

Three men on the roof

01.-30.06.2016.

During her stay in Rijeka, Ana Maria Grbić will work on her manuscript Tri čoveka na krovu / Three men on the roof which consists of the central part called Jadranski ciklus / Adriatic cycle, created last year during her stay in Istria. This manuscript deals with the the causal relationship of the city on sea and the city that has only seen the river, as the one from which she arrives. The similarities between environments in which she creates are the major theme of her manuscripts, and during her stay on the residency she will focus on acquiring a deeper insight into the ways in which people connect cities and the ways in which people treat the environment in which they are located, and vice versa. Different sensibilities of cities in her poetry are so far always linked in an unexpected way and become one and the same city that only in different ways alternates weather conditions. In this regard, changing the environment does not mean changing the space but only relationship towards the space that is one and sovereign. Precisely this sovereignty of space, rather than people is a theme of freedom which is to be addressed in this manuscript and that will be expanded and further reviewed. As her primary literary form is the one of the poem, it is not excluded that during her stay in Rijeka a new poem will occur that will not be an integral part of the manuscript Tri čoveka na krovu / Three men on the roof, but a separate work in which she will continue to review freedoms that we conquer or destroy by relocating or non/relocating from our known environments that we consider as our identity.

In addition to the work on the manuscript, Ana Maria Grbić will be introduced to the literary scene of the city, primarily with poets that she plans to invite at the Poetry Evenings that she organizes in Belgrade for the past six years and in this way connect Belgrade and Rijeka poetry scene.

On Saturday, June 18 at 7,30 pm in Book Caffe Dnevni Boravak, Ciottina 12a, a literary evening will be held where Ana Marija will present less known part of her opus, with an emphasis on the sexuality and eroticism in her poetry. The talk will be held in Croatian.

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The publishing house LOM was created in 1989 in Belgrade, Serbia and by 1996 it was known by the name KAOS. Editor is Flavio Rigonat.