VERA HORVAT

Vera Horvat is Serbian poet, essayist, literary translator and art historian (MA  History of Art at the Belgrade’s University Faculty of Philosophy). She publishes prose, poetry, essays, art and literary critic in European and Serbian literary magazines, she is author or translator of more than 30 books.

Vera Horvat is the winner of several Serbian and international awards for poetry, translation and contribution and innovation in culture; among them: Milosh N. Djurich (Association of Translators, Serbia), Crystal Feather for outstanding contribution to translation and popularizationRussian literature (Russia), The Flying Silver Pen of the Slovenian Academy of Literature and of Arts, Plaque “Simo Matavulj”(Association of Serbian Writers), All-Russian literary award  “The  Thread of Words that Connects” for her translation „The Tale of Igor’s Campaign“ into Serbian, Azerbaijan State Award and Medal “Imadedin Nasimi” etc. She is a member of Slavic Academy of Literature and Arts,  member of the Association of Writers of Serbia and the Association of Translators of Serbia. She worked in education and culture, and now she is engaged in editorial work. She writes in Serbian and Russian and translates from Russian, English, Ukrainian, Polish and Bulgarian. Her books, cycles of poems and essays were translated into English, Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Romanian and Greek language.