{"id":233865,"date":"2021-09-27T20:58:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T18:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nenasilje.org\/biber-in-prijedor\/"},"modified":"2021-11-02T08:27:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T07:27:22","slug":"biber-in-prijedor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nenasilje.org\/en\/biber-in-prijedor\/","title":{"rendered":"Biber in Prijedor"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Biber 03 Collection of Short Stories was promoted on Monday, 27 September at the Theatre in Prijedor. Biber is a contest for engaged short stories in Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian, Macedonian, Montenegrin and Serbian that is organised by the Biber<\/em> Team of the Centre for Nonviolent Action Sarajevo\/Belgrade. The promotion was supported by CZM KVART and the Culture of Memory Foundation from Prijedor.<\/p>\n

The panel promoting the Biber 03 Collection included: Monika Herceg<\/strong>, a writer from Zagreba\/Petrinja and winner of the first prize in the Biber 03 Contest for her story Head<\/em><\/a>; Ernad Osmi\u0107<\/strong>, a writer from Br\u010dko whose story The Devil\u2019s Mother<\/em> <\/a>was published in the Biber 03 Collection; Stefan Slavkovi\u0107<\/strong>, a writer from Belgrade whose story Tovarnik<\/em><\/a> is also included in the Collection; and Katarina Mili\u0107evi\u0107<\/strong> from Belgrade\/Kragujevac, a member of the Biber Team. Radmila Karla\u0161, a writer and reporter from Banja Luka, was the moderator of the panel discussion. The first topic concerned the relationship between literature and peace activism and the responsibility of writers and artists in general in peacebuilding and reconciliation processes in the region. How much can art, in this case specifically literature, contribute to change, both on a personal and on a social level, and how can contests such as this one contribute to such efforts?<\/p>\n

At the promotion of the Collection, Monika Herceg, a writer from Zagreb\/Petrinja who received the first prize in the \u00a0Biber 03<\/em> Contest, said:\u00a0\u201cThis story is from my village, of just a handful of houses, where the crime marked the whole village. Literature can be a powerful tool for dealing with social trauma. This is the precondition for coexistence. As for nationalism, the situation is unfortunately worse than before. It seems there is a generation of us who never experienced the war directly, but have been told about it and indoctrinated.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the main characteristics of Biber<\/em> is that it is multilingual, it tries to overcome the initial language barrier through translations between the region\u2019s languages to become a place of encounters, understanding, exchange and cooperation. One of the aims of the Biber<\/em> contest is to motivate artists to tackle the subjects of peacebuilding and reconciliation, to think and write about anti-war topics.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, we are unfortunately seeing reconciliation advocated by people who were directly responsible for preventing reconciliation in the 1990s. In Belgrade, there is increasingly less room to seriously discuss reconciliation. I first saw the collection and realised its power \u2013 to open up a much broader window into the past and the present, this region and its people \u2013 I felt relieved when I got my story out,\u201d Stefan Slavkovi\u0107 said at the promotion of the collection.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not about tolerating each other, if we\u2019re to live together, we must recognise and respect each other. Literature can be a tool of empathy and help us walk in someone else\u2019s shoes. I cannot understand the fate of my own people, let alone others, if I don\u2019t engage with these heartfelt and authentic stories. Recognition, uniting voices, so you feel less alone, so you\u2019re inspired to act,\u201d added Ernad Osmi\u0107.<\/p>\n

Katarina Mili\u0107evi\u0107, CNA: \u201cI don\u2019t know what it\u2019s like to be a refugee, I haven\u2019t had that experience in my life. But it seems to me that all of us working on this, both those writing stories for the contest and those coming to events such as this one, we are all like refugees, because we are searching for a place of our own where we can feel safe and sound.\u201d<\/p>\n

The third Biber Contest was launched in January 2019. We received 464 stories in Albanian, Macedonian, Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian. The jury was made up of Rumena Bu\u017earovska, Lejla Kalamuji\u0107 and Shkelzen Maliqi.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The first prize went to the story Glava<\/em><\/a> [Head] by Monika Herceg<\/strong>, the second prize to Lito<\/em><\/a> [Summer] by Ante Stori\u0107<\/strong>, and the third to Ma\u010detom \u0107e\u0161 me, ma\u010detom \u0107u te<\/em><\/a> [Machete You Me, Machete Me You] by Tamara Kova\u010devi\u0107<\/strong>. The collection also includes stories by the following authors:\u00a0 Abid Jari\u0107, Afrim Demiri, Aida \u0160e\u010di\u0107 Nezirevi\u0107, Aneta Petru\u0161evska, Besa Kalaja, Bojan Todorovi\u0107, Bojana Babi\u0107 Dimitrije Bukvi\u0107, Dragana Ran\u0111elovi\u0107, Ernad Osmi\u0107, Gabrijel Deli\u0107, Gordana Stojanoska, Imer Topanica, Isidora Petrovi\u0107, Luiza Bouharaoua, Manja Veli\u010dkovska, Mario Merd\u017ean, Milana Gajovi\u0107, Nikola Petrovi\u0107, Sla\u0111ana Nina Perkovi\u0107, Stefan Slavkovi\u0107, and Tihana Gambira\u017ea.<\/p>\n

Upcoming promotions of Biber 03 and Biber 04, which is coming out in print at the end of September, have been planned for 1 October 2021 in Podgorica<\/strong> and \u00a021 October 2021 in Novi Sad<\/strong>. The fifth Biber Shorty Story Contest has been announced and will be launched in December 2021.<\/p>\n

The Biber 03 collection is available in PDF and Kindle format through our website Biber.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

A photo gallery from this event is available here<\/a><\/p>\n

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