Her Story Is Your Story, Too

The main objective of the project “Her Story Is Your Story, Too – universal values of European women’s literature” (HSIYST) is to spread women’s experience (her story) and women’s history (herstory) because that guarantees a future for women’s literature and women in literature.

That is why the project will translate, publish, distribute, and promote 6 award-winning books (from Albania, Ireland, Norway, the Czech Republic, France, Hungary), all examples of universal literary values and written by women. The dominant theme of all books is the mother-daughter relationship, and sub-themes articulate the main problems of modern society: LGBT communities, domestic violence, growing up in a politically repressive society, wars, a genesis of a woman writer.

List of works

Ornela Vorpsi: Il paese dove non si muore mai. Translated from Italian into Serbian by Aleksandar Levi.

Zuzana Brabcová: Rok Perel. Translated from Czech into Serbian by Thana Hamović.

Anne Enright: Actress. Translated from English into Serbian by Jelena Filipović.

Vigdis Hjorh: Er mor død. Translated from Norwegian into Serbian by Radoš Kosović.

Annie Ernaux: Les Années. Translated from French into Serbian by Jelena Stakć.

Magda Szabó: Ókút. Translated from Hungarian into Serbian by Marko Čudić.

Another important aim is to engage the young people which the project does through book topics (growing up), specially designed promotions that show young people that literature is not “something boring”, and organisation of regional workshops aimed at creating future literary experts able to recognise universal values in women’s literature.

Our message “her story is your story, too” crosses even more borders because the project also includes regional cooperation and promotion that gathers partners from six counties: Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and North Macedonia around a common goal – to increase the visibility of women’s literature and create a reader’s sensibility for recognizing and accepting its values, because the values of women’s literature must be incorporated into the corpus of universal literary values.

The proposed project contributes to the diversity of literature in the target countries and transnational circulation, encourages collaboration between authors, translators and publishers, and addresses the cross-cutting issues. The distribution strategy ensures wide and easy access to the works for the reading audience, and promotional strategy contributes to an enlargement and renewal of the audience.

The project leader is Izdavačka kuća Štrik form Belgrade, partners are PEN centar u Bosni i Hercegovini in Sarajevo and Kulturni center Danilo Kiš from Ljubljana. Associated partners are Kulturtreger udruga za promicanje kultura Croatia, Helsinki Committee for Human Rights of Republic of Macedonia, Kombinat NVO Kombinat medija Montenegro, Portal Strane Udruženje književnika Strane Bosnia i Hercegovina.

Kulturni center Danilo Kiš

(Partner) Ljubljana

All projects of Slovenian producer

Slavic Soundwalking (SSW)

Foreign producers in the supported project

Izdavačka kuća Štrik Belgrade (leader)

Republic of Serbia
PEN centar u Bosni in Hercegovini (partner)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

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