POETRY

Valentina Novković, (Serbia), is a graduate philologist, a literary translator, a poet and a prose writer. She is also an Editor at the publishing house Liberland Art and Vračar, translator of works from Russian and English authors, and presenter of the Literary Conversations program.. Her verses have been translated into 22 languages: Hungarian, Russian, English, Romanian, Polish, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Kazakh, Italian, Vietnamese, Spanish, Portuguese, Indian, Nepali and others. She is the winner of many prizes for poetry and prose. She has been published in more than 20 world anthologies. Valentina Novković has translated into Serbian 15 books by authors from all over the world: Leo Butnaru, Arslan Bajir, Hosiat Rustamova, Kuchkor Narkabil, Mai Van Fan, Eduard Harents, Rahim Karimov, Ali Aliyev and many others… She interviewed more than 200 authors from of the rural world and they were published in relevant periodicals in Serbia. More than 300 poems and stories by authors from all over the world have been published in the Serbian literary magazines. Valentina Novković has published a number of books: Timeless (Poems) – 2014; Drop on Dry Land (Parthenon) – 2018; Riddles of Tenderness Liberland Art – 2021; Heavenly songs - 2022, Unrest, peace – 2023; Two Hours of Real Life (Stories) – 2020; Memories (Novel - dedicated to her deceased father) – 2024, etc.