Authors

Monika Herceg (Sisak, 1990) is one of the most acclaimed young Croatian poets. In 2017., she was awarded with Goran Award for Best Young Poets for her unpublished poetry collection Initial Coordinates. The collection was published in 2018., upon which the poet won Kvirin Award for Best Young Poets, Fran Galović Award, Slavić award and international Mostovi Struge Award. In 2019., she was awarded the regional Lapis Histriae prize for her short story Tic-Tac, while her second collection,Closed Season, won the Na vrh jezika literary prize in 2020.

Her poems have been published in various literary magazines and translated into ten languages.

 

• AWARDS:
  
  
• 2017 - Goran award for young poets
• 2017 - Castello di Duino award
• 2017 - Stevan Sremac award
• 2018 - Kvirin award for young poets
• 2018 - Fran Galović award for the best book
• 2018 - Slavić award for the best debut
• 2018 - Na vrh jezika award
• 2018 - Mostovi Struge international award for the best debut
• 2019 - Lapis Histrie award for the best short story
• 2019 - Biber award for the best short story
• 2020 - Zvonko Milković award for the best book of poetry
• 2020 - Stories from the Balcony, Stories from the Balkans award for the best short play
• 2020 - National theatre in Zagreb award for the best drama script for Where To Buy Tenderness
• 2021 - Marin Držić drama script award for the best play (Kill yourself, dear Dad)
• 2021 - National theatre in Mostar award for best play (Burried Miracles)
• 2021 - Fierce Woman award
• 2022 - Milo Bošković award
• 2022 - Marin Držić award for the best play (Mum, Can We Die Today)
• 2023 - Ranko Marinković award for the best short story
• 2024 - European Poet of Freedom Award
• 2024 - Central Europe Initiative Award for Young Writers
• 2024 - Biber award for the best short story