DUSHICA IVANOVIC

Dushica Ivanovich is a Serbian writer. She was born in 1960. She graduated from the Department of Serbo-Croatian Language and Yugoslav Literature at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade. She worked as a Serbian-language teacher, journalist and proofreader in Belgrade. She translated from Slovak into Serbian during her four-year stay in Slovakia. She lived and worked in the town of Toronto in Canada from 1998 to 2021. Besides her work in the computer industry, she also taught at a Serbian-language school, was a member of the editorial board and one of the proofreaders for the literature and culture magazine “Ljudi govore” (“People speak”) and a contributor to several Serbian newspapers and magazines. She returned to Serbia in 2021. She is a member of the Association of Writers of Serbia, the Association of Writers from Serbia and Canada named “Desanka Maksimović”, Matica Srpska and the Institute for Children’s Literature in Belgrade.

So far, she has published the following books:

Srce mog srca – a poetic collection, 2010 (The Heart of my Heart);

Zvezdani putnici – a poetic collection, 2012 (Star travelers);

Nebo pod nogama – a poetic collection, 2013 (The Sky under the Feet)

Ljuljaška – a collection of short meditative prose, 2015 (The Swing);

Prolog za Dimitrija – a novel, 2016 (Prologue for Dimitrije);

Razoružana slova – a poetic collection, 2019 (Disarmed Letters);

Zovem se Astikja (Učenje duše) – a novel, 2019 (My name is Astikya (Learning of the Soul))

Ljubav je plava školjka u kojoj stanuje nebo – a collection of poems for children, 2020 (Love is a Blue Shell Where the Sky Dwells)

Tako se gradi kuća – a poetic collection, 2021 (That is how a house is built)

Ključevi života – a bilingual English and Serbian poetic collection, 2021 (The Keys to Life)

She publishes her poetry, prose and essays in papers, magazines, and on literature Internet pages. She proofreads and writes the reviews and critiques of books. She participates successfully in international poetic festivals. Dushica’s poems take part in anthologies, collections, and selections of poetry. She won several significant awards for her literature and humanitarian work, as well as for her contribution to the preservation of the Serbian language and script.