Discussion with Writer Ivana Dimić

Winner of the NIN award, Ivana Dimić, comes to the opening of the Kaleidoscope of Culture.

Join the discussion with one of the best contemporary writers in the street behind the Liman Cultural Station in the District on 2 September at 7 p.m.

Ivana Dimić was born in Belgrade in 1957, and she is a dramaturgy graduate. She is writing short stories, dramas, dramatisations, TV scripts, translations, as well as plays for Belgrade theatres. She is a member of the Serbian Literary Guild since 2001 and has had the status of a Prominent artist in the Association of Drama Artists of Serbia since 2005. She carried out the function of the Assistant Minister of Culture, Director of National Theatre Drama and Director of ‘Atelje 212’. She lives and works in Belgrade as a retiree.
Published prose: Crna zelen (’95.), Mahorka, mastilo i muž (’98.), Uzimanje vremena (2001.), Ima li koga? (2006.), Popis imovine (2009.), Arzamas (2016.), Sve u svemu (2019.).
Performed dramas: Pred ogledalom (Atelje 212 ’86.), Pepeljuga (little theatre Radović ’89.), Beli ugao (magazine Književnost, ’98.), Golje (Terazije 2001.), Zmajovini pangalozi (B. Buha 2007.).
Performed dramatisations: Mamac – based on novels by D. Albahari (National Theatre, ’98.), Cigani lete u nebo – based on the novel by M. Gorki (Terazije 2004.) Petar Pan – based on the novel by J. M. Barrie (Buha 2010.)
Translated dramas: Dramas from English: M. Frayn, H. Pinter, N. Coward, B. Elton, R. Munro, M. Jones, T. McNally, T. Stoppard, N. Rein; Novel from English by A. McCall Smith: The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, Tears of the Giraffe, and To Die in Chicago by N. Tešić; Dramas from French: V. Sardou, Marivaux, R. Kus, Ionesco, Y. Reza, Lanoux, Zeller.
Awards:
2008, the award of the ‘Festić’ festival for the best drama text for ‘Zmajovini pangalozi’
2011, the award ‘Zlatni beočug’ for contribution to culture
2012, the annual award for plays ‘Henry VI’ and ‘Women’s Orchestra’
2016, the award ‘Pero Despota Stefana’
2017, the NIN award for the best novel in 2016

Partners of the Kaleidoscope of Culture 2022 are Erste Bank, IDEA, DDOR, A1 Srbija, and Heineken Srbija.

Photo: Promo