The ‘Prozart’ award, presented by the International Prose Festival ‘PRO-ZA Balkan’ to a prominent author from the Balkans for outstanding contribution to the development of the Balkan Literature, this year, 2014 goes to the exceptional short-story writer from Croatia, Dasha Drndic, by an unanimous decision of the Award Board.

The name and the work of this author are very well known and highly estimated by the Balkan and International critics, as well
as by the reading audience. Drndic’s prose works, and in
particular ‘Leica Format’, the documentary novel ‘Sonnenschein’, and ‘April in Berlin’, feature a recognizable, richly innovative style and layered writing, and have presented her with the distinguished national recognitions ‘Kiklop’ and ‘Fran Galovic’, shortlisted her for the prestigious British award ‘Independent Foreign Fiction Prize’,
and awarded her with ‘Independent Foreign Fiction Readers Prize’. Drndic’s books have been translated in a number of languages. Worth mentioning are some of the publishers, such as the French and worldwide leader in publishing, Gallimard, then De Geus from the Netherlands, Bompiani from Italy, Calligram, Carne, Kuerkus, Fraktura…, while reviews of her books have been published in the most prominent newspapers, for instance New York Times, Star Tribune… Dasha Drndic lives and creates in Rijeka, where, among the other, works as a Professor of English Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy. Dasha Drndic is a long-time editor of the renowned regional magazine ‘Sarajevske sveske’.

‘Prozart’ Award Board:
Vladislav Bajac
Aleksandar Prokopiev
Elizabeta Sheleva
Ermis Lafazanovski
Dejan Trajkoski