Stefan Bošković
area: Literature, theater, film
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Montenegroarea
Literature, theater, filmresidence
Podgoricarecommending institution
BMEIAtime period
September 2022 - October 2022Stefan Bošković is a Montenegrin writer. He was born in 1983 in Podgorica.
His books include the novel Minister – laureat of the 2020 European Union Prize for Literature, and Central European Intitute - CEI award for young writters 2021 – as well as the book of short stories Transparentne životinje (Transparent Animals). His short story Transparent Animals has been published in the anthology Best European fiction 2019 -Dalkey Archive Press. In 2016, he won the second prize of the Festival of European Short Stories (CROATIA) for “Fashion and Friends.” His short stories Fashion and friends have been published in the online magazine Body literature (UK) 2019 and, Search porn – Word without borders (USA) 2019. He has written a novel, Šamaranje (Slap in the Face), which was awarded the Prize for the Best Manuscript Novel in Montenegro in 2014, and published in three editions.
He has written the scripts for a feature-length film Lowdown.
Short movies Peloid 2019., Traquility of blood 2015 ( Grand Prix for Best Film at the Short Film Festival in Drama – Greece) were screened so far in more than 50 international festivals (Palm Springs Film Festival, Tampere Film Festival, Odense Short Film Festival, Busan)
Project The Otter Written is winner of the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award at CineLink Co-Production Market at the Sarajevo Film Festival’s industry section CineLink Industry days and was selected to L'atelier Cinefondation 2021 selection - Cannes film festival 2021.
My next book, the third novel I have started to write earlier this year is half written. It is a short novel with working title Lovers. Time spent in the residency will allow me to finish this novel. Residencies like this one help me very much since that is the way to find time and peace away from the daily routine and obligations. In all my previous residences I have been working on books as well.