Bibliography
Selection
Commentary
Buy a Book
Writers On-Line
|
BILJANA OBRADOVIC is
originally from Yugoslavia and holds the BA in English
Language and Literature from Belgrade University, the MFA in Creative
Writing, Poetry from Virginia Commonwealth University, and the PhD in
English with a creative dissertation from the University of
Nebraska — Lincoln. Her second collection of poems is entitled Le Riche
Monde, a bilingual edition (Belgrade, Raska Skola, and Merrick, NY,
Cross-Cultural Communications 1999). Her first collection of poems, Frozen
Embraces, a bilingual edition (Belgrade, Center of Emigrants from Serbia,
1997), won the Rastko Petrovic Award for the Best Book of 1998. Her poems
also appear in Three Poets in New Orleans (Xavier Review Press, 2000). Her
other works include a Serbian translation of John Gery's American Ghosts:
Selected Poems, a bilingual edition (Belgrade, Raska Skola, and Merrick,
NY, Cross-Cultural Communications 1999). Her work has appeared in such
magazines as Poetry East, Bloomsbury Review, Prairie Schooner, Plum Review,
and Knjizevne Novine. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize twice
and is the winner of the Masaryk medal from the Czech Academy of Arts. She
is a Member of the Association of Writers of Serbia and Assistant
Professor of English at Xavier University of Louisiana, in New Orleans.
|
