Ognjen Spahić

Ognjen Spahić was born in 1977 in Podgorica, Montenegro. He published collections of short stories Sve to (All That, 2001), Zimska potraga (Winter Search, 2007) and Puna glava radosti (Head Full of Joy, 2014) for which he received the European Union Prize for Literature in 2014. His novel Hansenova djeca (Hansen’s Children, 2004) won him the Meša Selimović prize for 2005, awarded to the best new novel from Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. To date, Hansenova djeca has been published in French, Italian, Slovenian, Arabic, Romanian, Hungarian, Macedonian and English. His short story ‘Rejmond je mrtav. Karver je umro, rekoh’ (‘Raymond is No Longer with Us – Carver is Dead’) was included in the anthology Best European Fiction 2011, published by Dalkey Archive Press in the USA. In 2007, he was a resident writer at the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program. In 2011, he was the recipient of Romania’s Ovid Festival Prize awarded to a prominent young talent. The novel Masalai (2015) is Spahić’s most recent work.