The 6th Biber Contest was open from 8 December 2023 to 26 May 2024. A total of 490 stories were submitted. The jury, comprising Almin Kaplan, Jasna Dimitrijević and Tanja Stupar Trifunović, selected 24 stories to be included in the multilingual collection and decided on the prizes. One story was selected for the collection by the Biber organisation team.
The translators of the stories are Gjoko Zdraveski, Đorđe Božović, Ilir Ajdini, Irena Šentevska, Ivan Šopov, Lidija Barić and Qerim Ondozi.
The cover illustration is by Jana Danilović.
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Publication is available in: Albanian, Macedonian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian/Montenegrin. Publication is not available in English.
The collection consists of the following stories:
- „Amerika hito” [America Hito] by Simon Marić from Belgrade
- „Cijanid” [Cyanide] by Miloš Perišić from Aranđelovac
- „Cipele” [Shoes] by Nives Madunić Barišić from Zagreb
- „Dječak koji je volio zvona” [The Boy Who Liked Bells] by Vladimira Becić from Dugo Selo
- „Erzähle mir etwas über dich” [Tell Me About Yourself] by Danijela Repman from Sombor
- „Haljina” [The Dress] by Marijana Čanak from Novi Žednik
- „Kako ubiti čovjeka” [How to Kill a Man] by Tena Lončarević from Županja
- „Kolekcionar” [The Collector] by Ivana Dilber from Tomislavgrad
- „Konia e zezë” [Black Pup] by Mehmet Elezi from Tirana
- „Konkurs” [Competition] by Mihail Marković from Cetinje
- „Kora smreke” [Spruce Bark] by Marija Krtinić Veckov, Stord/Norway
- „Kredenac” [The Cupboard] by Tatjana Sikima from Belgrade
- „Leto koje smo čekali” [The Summer We’ve Been Waiting For] by Jelena Vukotić from Valjevo
- „Makthi” [Nightmare] by Jeton Musliu from Pristina
- „Matanë” [Beyond] by Mevlude Skuroshi from Mitrovicë
- „Meštar” [Master] by Slobodanka Đuderija from Okrug Gornji
- „Nikad nisam rekao tata” [I Never Said Dad] by Srđan Miljević from Belgrade
- „Petrović” by Emina Đelilović-Kevrić from Vitez
- „Ptice” [Birds] by Irena Skopljak Barić from Vrbovac
- „Raspust” [School Holiday] by Milica Lukić from Belgrade
- „Snegot” by Dragan Simonovski from Skopje
- „Tijela od vode” [Bodies of Water] by Monika Herceg from Zagreb
- „Treba nešto da uradim sa cipelama” [I Should Do Something about the Shoes] by Marija Starčević from Belgrade
- „Univerzalno sredstvo” [All-purpose] by Tamara Kovačević from Ljubljana
- „Ustani da stojiš” [Get Up to Stand Up] by Bojana Savić from Novi Beograd
