Dragana Tripković

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Dragana Tripković
Born26 April 1984
NationalityMontenegrin
EducationUniversity of Montenegro
Occupation(s)poet, writer
EmployerVijesti

Dragana Gaga Tripković (born 26 April 1984) is a Montenegrin poet, playwright and journalist. She is the vice president of PEN Montenegro and her poetry is available in a number of languages.

Life[edit]

Tripković was born in 1984 in Cetinje[1] and she graduated in drama from the University of Montenegro.[2] In 2011 she founded and led a theatre organisation titled the "Alternative Theatre Active Company". The members of the organisation translated the Belgian play "Blind" by Nobel laureate Maurice Maeterlinck.[3] In 2012 and 2013 she was awarded the Sea of Words prize for her short stories by the Anna Lindh Foundation.[4]

In 2014 she joined the council of the national broadcaster Radio and Television of Montenegro and served for five years.[2]

She is mentioned in Europe: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society in 2023 in the chapter about Montenegro as a writer of Montenegrin.[5] Tripković writes for Montenegro's newspaper Vijesti in the country's capital Podgorica.[1]

In 2016 she created an anthology of Albanian poetry titled, "Kaplje: antologija albanske proze i poezije" translated by Shkëlzen Maliqi.[6]

In 2020 her work was published in German translated by Cornelia Marks, "Verses from Sand: Mediterranean cycle and other poems" (Verse aus Sand: mediterraner Zyklus und andere Gedichte)[7] and she edited a poetry anthology, with Saladin Burdžović, titled "Revolucija i njena kopilad: poezija 1990-2020".[8] Her poetry has been translated into Albanian, English, German, Italian, Polish, Latvian, Macedonian and the Russian language.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Dragana Tripković: Pjesme (in Croatian).
  2. ^ a b c "Dragana Tripković | EU Prize for Literature". www.euprizeliterature.eu. Retrieved 2024-04-05.
  3. ^ "Non governmental organization ATAK (ALTERNATIVE THEATRE ACTIVE COMPANY)". annalindhfoundation.org. Retrieved 2024-04-05.
  4. ^ "Dragana Tripković". Words Without Borders. Retrieved 2024-04-05.
  5. ^ Wilson, Thomas M. (2023-11-30). Europe: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society [2 volumes]. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 625. ISBN 978-1-4408-5545-0.
  6. ^ Tripković, Dragana (2016). Kaplje: antologija albanske proze i poezije. OKF. ISBN 978-9940-36-043-6.
  7. ^ Tripković, Dragana (2020). Verse aus Sand: mediterraner Zyklus und andere Gedichte (in German). Leipziger Literaturverlag. ISBN 978-3-86660-254-0.
  8. ^ Burdžović, Saladin (2020). Revolucija i njena kopilad: poezija 1990-2020. CDNK. ISBN 978-9940-47-000-5.