Nenad Trajković (Serbia)

Nenad Trajković (Serbia)

Nenad Trajković (1982) is a Serbian poet, essayist, literary critic and traslator. He graduated from Faculty of Law, University of Kragujevac, Serbia. He has published three collections of poetry, Traces (2008), I’m Taking You to the Museum (2011), and Wind From The Tongue (2016, for which he got The Rade Tomic Prize). His works have been published widely in literary magazines and national newspapers in Serbia and abroad. Translated into English, German, French, Polish, Macedonian, Slovakian, Russian, Bulgarian, Spanish and Romanian.

He has translated and edited collection of poetry The Hero Of The Forgotten Class by Zvonko Taneski, Secret Letters by Slavica Gadzova Sviderska and Way to Mildness by Jovica Tasevski Eternijan from Macedonian into Serbian. In 2013 he received the award given by the Bulgarian publisher Melnik. In 2015 he received the award Rade Tomic for the best poetry manuscript in Serbia. He is a founder and editor of an international literary manifestation Pisanija. He is the member of Serbian Literary Society.

ON THE WIRE

in a village my father comes from

the toilets were outside

their paper on a rusty wire

when I first entered them

I found Emily Bronte

whom my grandfather had tried to hang there

it was unpleasant

to be there with a lady

so I took her out in my arms

in the morning

I was shown a suitcase full