<strong>Vilenica</strong> 2008 Prize Winner Nagrajenec Vilenice 2008 14 15 The <strong>Vilenica</strong> jury – consisting of Andrej Blatnik (President), Aleš Šteger (Vice-President), Lidija Dimkovska, Niko Grafenauer, Ludwig Hartinger, Vesna Kondrič Horvat, Tone Peršak, Veronika Simoniti, Tomaž Šalamun, Špela Šramel, Veno Taufer, Jana Unuk, and Jani Virk – have awarded the <strong>Vilenica</strong> 2008 Prize to the Polish writer Andrzej Stasiuk. Andrzej Stasiuk, Poland The Polish writer, poet, essayist, and literary critic Andrzej Stasiuk was born in 1960 in Warsaw. As an activist in the pacifist movement, he deserted the army in the early 1980s and spent a year and a half in prison. Later he started moving in circles close to the music, rock, and punk scene, publishing articles in fanzines and alternative newspapers until he left Warsaw for the countryside in 1986. It was only after the fall of the communist regime that he made his literary debut with a short story collection based on his prison experience, although the main protagonist in the book is language. He still lives and writes in a village called Wołowiec in the Low Beskids, a mountain range in the Carpathians, in the South of Poland. Besides fiction, Stasiuk writes book reviews and feuilletons, which he publishes in the weeklies Tygodnik Powszechny and Gazeta Wyborcza, and in the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He has received several literary awards for his achievements, including the Foundation for Culture Award (1994), the Kościelski Foundation Prize (1995), the Raczyński Library Prize for Dukla (1998), the Machiner Prize (1999), the Samuel Bogumił Linde Literary Prize (2002), the Adalbert- Stifter-Prize (2005), the Literary Prize NIKE for Going to Babadag (2005), and the Arkady Fiedler Award, known as the “Amber Butterfly”, for Fado (2007). Together with his wife Monika Sznajderman, Andrzej Stasiuk also runs a publishing company. The family publishing company, Czarne, specialises in contemporary Eastern and Central European prose and essays. Their publications include numerous works by authors from the Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian language areas, such as Danilo Kiš, Dubravka Ugrešić, Muharem Bazdulj, Daša Drndić, Tatjana Gromača, Bora Ćosić, Miljenko Jergović, Nenad Veličković, and Vladimir Arsenijević, as well as the Slovene author Jani Virk. Strokovna žirija <strong>Vilenica</strong> v sestavi Andrej Blatnik, predsed nik, Aleš Šteger, podpredsednik, Lidija Dimkovska, Niko Grafenauer, Ludwig Hartinger, Vesna Kondrič Horvat, Tone Peršak, Veronika Simoniti, Tomaž Šalamun, Špela Šramel, Veno Taufer, Jana Unuk in Jani Virk je odločila, da nagrado vilenica 2008 prejme poljski pisatelj Andrzej Stasiuk. Andrzej Stasiuk, Poljska Poljski pisatelj, pesnik, esejist in literarni kritik Andrzej Stasiuk se je rodil leta 1960 v Varšavi. V zgodnjih osemdesetih letih je kot aktivist pacifističnega gibanja dezertiral iz vojske in zato leto in pol preživel v zaporu. Pozneje je živel v okolju, povezanem z glasbeno, rockovsko in punkovsko sceno, ter objavljal v fanzinih in alternativnih časopisih, dokler ni leta 1986 zapustil Varšave in se preselil na deželo. Šele po padcu komunizma je objavil svoj prvenec, zbirko kratkih zgodb, ki so nastale na podlagi izkušnje zapora, v katerih pa je glavni junak jezik. Še danes živi in ustvarja v kraju Wołowiec v Nizkih Beskidih, delu Karpatov na jugu Poljske. Poleg literarnega ustvarjanja piše tudi literarne kritike in feljtone ter jih objavlja v Tygodniku Powszechnem, Gazeti Wyborczi in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Za svoje književno delo je prejel več literarnih nagrad, med njimi nagrado sklada Kulture (1994), nagrado sklada Kościelskih (1995), nagrado knjižnice Raczyńskih za Duklo (1998), nagrado Machiner (1999), literarno nagrado Samuela Bogumiła Lindeja (2002), nagrado Adalberta Stifterja (2005), nagrado Nike za Na poti v Babadag (2005) in nagrado Arkadyja Fiedlerja »jantarni metulj« za Fado (2007). Skupaj z ženo Moniko Sznajderman se ukvarjata tudi z založništvom. Njuna družinska založba Czarne je specializirana za sodobno vzhodno- in srednjeevropsko prozo in esejistiko. Med drugimi sta izdala tudi številne knjige avtorjev z bosanskega, hrvaškega in srbskega govornega območja, med njimi Danila Kiša, Dubravko Ugrešić, Muharema Bazdulja, Dašo Drndić, Tatjano Gromačo, Boro Ćosića, Miljenka Jergovića, Nenada Veličkovića in Vladimirja Arsenijevića, od slovenskih avtorjev pa Janija Virka.
<strong>Vilenica</strong> Pre-Opening Events Predvečeri Vilenice 16 17 <strong>Vilenica</strong> Pre-Opening Events At the <strong>Vilenica</strong> pre-opening events on 2 September, on the eve of the official opening of the <strong>Vilenica</strong> Festival, we will have the honour of hosting the world-famous Cuban writer Zoé Valdés (in Ljubljana), German prose writer Ulrich Peltzer (in Maribor), Chinese poet Yang Lian and writer Yo Yo, exiled to Great Britain (in Gorizia, Italy), <strong>Vilenica</strong> laureate Goran Stefanovski and Macedonian writer Kica Kolbe (at the Škrabec Homestead in Hrovača), Iztok Geister and Peter Stamm (in Koper). In Sežana the Golden Boat Literary Society will celebrate its 10 th anniversary. Predvečeri Vilenice Na predvečerih Vilenice, ki se bodo odvijali 2. septembra, dan pred slovesno otvoritvijo Vilenice, bomo gostili svetovno znano kubansko pisateljico Zoé Valdés (v Ljubljani), nemškega prozaista Ulricha Peltzerja (v Mariboru), kitajskega pesnika Yanga Liana in pisateljico Yo Yo, ki živita v eksilu v Veliki Britaniji (v Gorici, Italija), vileniškega lavreata Gorana Stefanovskega in makedonsko pisateljico Kico Kolbe (v Škrabčevi domačiji v Hrovači), Iztoka Geistra in Petra Stamma (v Kopru), v Sežani pa bo Literarno društvo Zlati čoln praznovalo 10. obletnico ustanovitve. <strong>Vilenica</strong> 2007, Alberto Princis, Roberto Pazzi <strong>Vilenica</strong> 2007, Tomas Tranströmer
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