Moderated By: Biljana Ziki /
Natalija Milovanovi (1995) is a poet who writes in Serbian and Slovenian and works as a literary translator (Bojan Vasi/, Radmila Petrovi/). In addition, she organizes and moderates literary evenings and is an executive producer of the Pranger festival. She co-authored with Tanja Boji / chapbook domestication/domestication of domestic animals (2019, self-published). Her first solo poetry collection, Self-Evident (2021, Centre for Slovenian literature, Aleph 200), won the book fair prize for the best debut, while her second collection, Foreign softness (2025, Centre for Slovenian literature, Aleph 217) won the Veronica prize and the nomination for the Jenko prize. Both books were included in the critical selection of 10 Books from Slovenia (2022; 2026), which presents the best Slovenian fiction books of the past year in English according to literary critics.
Poems by Natalia Milovanovi / / have been translated into several languages, mdr. English, German, Spanish, Korean and Czech. They are available in English on the European poetry portal Versopolis.
Tanja Bozi (1995) completed her studies in comparative literature and French at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. In 2024, she published a collection of poetry, Vejo by vejo (LUD literature), and she also regularly publishes poems and short stories in print and online. In 2020, she received the title of Knighthood 20. In 2022, she won the young Pen Award of the newspaper House Delo. In the autumn of 2019, she published a bilingual chapbook of the performative poetry bilingual the domestication of domestic animals / domestication of domestic animals. Her poems and short stories have so far been translated into English, French, Maltese, Serbian and Macedonian. He lives, writes and works in Ljubljana.
Biljana Ziki / she is a freelance cultural worker, a PhD in media studies and a graduate philologist. It works at the intersection of radio creation, journalism, cultural production, publishing, research and activism. For more than a decade he has been co-creating the programme control of the year on Radio student and our own on the first programme of Radio Slovenia. As a producer, organizer and moderator of cultural events and projects, she cooperates with the central Slovenian cultural institutions, in particular with the public fund of the Republic of Slovenia for cultural activities. He works editorially at the multilingual publishing activity of KC Danilo Kis and the newspaper Parallele (JSKD). He also writes poetry published in Slovenian and regional anthologies and on online literary portals. As the head of the Cultural Centre, Danilo Kis has been developing a supporting infrastructure for multilingual and multicultural authors for many years and promoting cultural practices that transcend national and linguistic boundaries.
The project is carried out in cooperation with Cankarjev Dom and The Danilo Kis Cultural Centre, a non-governmental institution working in the public interest in the field of culture.
Moderira: Biljana Žikić
Natalija Milovanović (1995) je pesnica, ki piše v srbščini in slovenščini ter deluje kot literarna prevajalka (Bojan Vasić, Radmila Petrović). Poleg tega organizira in moderira literarne večere ter je izvršna producentka festivala Pranger. V soavtorstvu s Tanjo Božić je objavila chapbook Pripitomljavanje domaćih životinja/Udomačevanje domačih živali (2019, samozaložba). Njena prva samostojna pesniška zbirka Samoumevno (2021, Center za slovensko književnost, Aleph 200) je prejela nagrado knjižnega sejma za najboljši prvenec, druga zbirka Tuja mehkoba (2025, Center za slovensko književnost, Aleph 217) pa Veronikino nagrado in nominacijo za Jenkovo nagrado. Obe knjigi sta bili uvrščeni v kritiški izbor 10 Books from Slovenia (2022; 2026), ki v angleščini predstavlja najboljše slovenske leposlovne knjige minulega leta po mnenju literarnih kritikov.
Pesmi Natalije Milovanović so bile prevedene v več jezikov, mdr. angleščino, nemščino, španščino, korejščino in češčino. V angleščini so dostopne na evropskem pesniškem portalu Versopolis.
Tanja Božić (1995) je končala študij primerjalne književnosti in francoščine na ljubljanski Filozofski fakulteti. Leta 2024 je objavila pesniško zbirko Vejo po vejo (LUD Literatura), pesmi in kratke zgodbe pa redno objavlja tudi v tisku in na spletu. Leta 2020 je prejela naziv vitezinje 20. Pesniškega turnirja Založbe Pivec, 2022 pa je osvojila nagrado mlado pero časopisne hiše Delo. V soavtorstvu z Natalijo Milovanović je jeseni leta 2019 objavila dvojezični chapbook performativnega pesniškega dvogovora Udomačevanje domačih živali / Pripitomljavanje domaćih životinja. Njene pesmi in kratke zgodbe so bile doslej prevedene v angleščino, francoščino, malteščino, srbščino in makedonščino. Živi, piše in dela v Ljubljani.
Biljana Žikić je samostojna kulturna delavka, doktorica medijskih študij in diplomirana filologinja. Deluje na presečišču radijskega ustvarjanja, novinarstva, kulturne produkcije, založništva, raziskovanja in aktivizma. Več kot desetletje soustvarja oddaji Kontrola leta na Radiu Študent in Sami naši na Prvem programu Radia Slovenija. Kot producentka, organizatorka in moderatorka kulturnih dogodkov in projektov sodeluje z osrednjimi slovenskimi kulturnimi institucijami, predvsem z Javnim skladom Republike Slovenije za kulturne dejavnosti. Uredniško deluje pri večjezični založniški dejavnosti KC Danilo Kiš in časopisu Paralele (JSKD). Piše tudi poezijo, objavljeno v slovenskih in regionalnih zbornikih ter na spletnih literarnih portalih. Kot vodja Kulturnega centra Danilo Kiš že vrsto let razvija podporno infrastrukturo za večjezične in večkulturne avtorice in avtorje ter spodbuja kulturne prakse, ki presegajo nacionalne in jezikovne meje.
Projekt poteka v sodelovanju Cankarjevega doma in Kulturnega centra Danilo Kiš, nevladnega zavoda, ki deluje v javnem interesu na področju kulture.