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Poet Refugee – Refugee Poet

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  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: December 19, 2016, 19:30 – 21:00

Reading and debate with Adin Ljuca.

The Bosnian poet, prose author and translator has to date published the poetry collection Hidžra (Hegira) (1996) and a suite of short stories, Vytetované obrazy (Tattooed Pictures) (2005), whose dominant theme is refugeehood.

Adin Ljuca left Bosnia for Prague shortly after he was injured in the defence of his hometown of Maglaj during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He graduated in comparative studies from Charles University’s Faculty of Arts in Prague and has worked as a librarian for 20 years, first at the Slavonic Library at the Czech National Library and later as the head of the historical collection at the National Technical Library.

How does a 1990s refugee view the current refugee crisis? How does the current situation of refugees in Europe differ from the refugee wave of the 1990s, and what are the similarities between the situation of refugees from the former Yugoslavia and that of refugees today?

František Šístek, a Balkans history specialist from the Institute of History at the Czech Academy of Sciences, and Jiří Hrabal, a literary theorist from Palacky University in Olomouc, will take part in the debate and read their own translations of Ljuca’s texts.

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