Marija Knežević


Marija Knežević, a Serbian poet, fiction writer, essayist, literary translator and professor of literature was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1963.
She graduated from Belgrade University with the degree in General Literature with Theory of Literature and later on earned her MA degree in Comparative Literature at Michigan State University where she was also teaching from 1996 to 2000. Among other jobs, she had a notable role in radio-journalism at Radio Belgrade. She is a member of the Serbian Literary Society and now has the status of 'independent writer'. Her poems, stories and essays can be found in almost all Yugoslav and Serbian literary magazines, as well as in many foreign literary reviews. A great number of them are available in both Serbian and foreign anthologies.

Published books and translations

A great number of authors have been writing about the work of Marija Knežević, among others: Ljiljana Šop, Bogdan A. Popović, Zorica Bečanović-Nikolić, Jasmina Vrbavac, Tanja Kragujević, Aleksandar B. Laković, Radmila Lazić, Mirko Magarašević, Nikola Živanović, Aleksandar Jerkov, Ewa Zonnenberg, Mihailo Pantić, Svetlana Tomić.

Awards