Marija Knežević

Marija Knežević (born 29 December 1963) is a Serbian poet, fiction writer, essayist, literary translator and Professor of literature.

Knežević was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1963. She graduated from Belgrade University with a degree in Comparative Literature and Theory of Literature. She later completed her M.A. degree at Michigan State University where she also taught from 1996 to 2000. She wrote a column for the Politika newspaper.

Poetry
Her poetry includes:
 * Elegiac Advice to Julia, BIGZ; Belgrade. (1994)
 * Things for Personal Use, Prosveta; Belgrade. (1994)
 * The Age of Salome, Prosveta; Belgrade. (1996)
 * My Other You, Vajat; Belgrade. (2001)

Prose
Her collection of proses include:


 * Dog Food, novel published by Matica srpska, Novi Sad (1989)
 * Querida, e-mail correspondence with Anika Krstić from Belgrade during bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999. Vajat; Belgrade (2001)
 * The Book of Longing, Slobodna izdanja Slobodana Mašića; Belgrade. (2003)
 * Das Buch vom Fehlen, bilingual, Serbian and German edition; Wieser Verlag, translation into German: Goran Novaković, Vienna. (2004)
 * Ekaterini, (2005). Translation into English: Will Firth, Istros Books, London; England. (2013)
 * Fabula rasa, the work on the book financed by Austrian "KulturKontakt", the author's edition; Belgrade. (2008)
 * Auto, Agora; Zrenjanin. (2017)
 * Sun Catcher, novel, Presing Mladenovac (2023)

Awards

 * The Đura Jakšič Award, 2007, for the poetry collection In tactum
 * The story “Without Fear of Change” (from Fabula rasa) is included in the "Best European Fiction" edition for 2012 (Dalkey Archive Press, Illinois, US).