WRITERS
RAJKO DZURIC
Raјko Đurić (Serbian
Cyrillic: Рајко Ђурић, Romani: Raiko
Juric; born on October 3, 1947 in Malo
Orašje, Smederevo, Serbia, SFR
Yugoslavia) is a Serbian Romani writer and academic. He is
also politically active as the leader of one of Roma parties in Serbia - Roma Union of Serbia.He studied philosophy
at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy (1967–1972).
In 1986 he obtained a Doctorate of Sociology writing the dissertation Culture
of the Roma in S.F.R. Yugoslavia. In 1991 he moved to Berlin avoiding
involvement in the Yugoslavian wars.He wrote more than 500
articles and, until leaving Yugoslavia, was the chief redactor for the cultural
section of the newspaper Politika in Belgrad. He was the President of
theInternational Romani Union and is
the General Secretary of the Romani Centre of International PEN. His literary
works have been translated into more than five languages. In 2011, he
co-founded a Romani academy of arts and sciences in Belgrade and has been its
president since then.
HEDINA TAHIROVIC SIJERCIC
Hedina Tahirović
Sijerčić was born on November 11, 1960. in Sarajevo, Bosnia - Herzegovina. She
is a journalism graduate, a writer, a poet, an educator, and the first Bosnian
television and radio presenter and producer of Romani origin.While working in
Sarajevo, she organized and hosted Romani TV and radio programs, and worked as
an activist for the International Romani Union. Later, she lived in Toronto,
Canada and worked as a teacher for the Toronto District School Board,
eventually becoming the Editor-in-Chief of the first Canadian-Romani newsletter
“Romano Lil” between 1998–2001.Ms. Tahirović Sijerčić
won the “Best Promotion” prize for her presentation of her book, “How God made
the Roma” at the XXI. International Book Fair in Sarajevo. In 2010 she won the
prize for best literary creation of 2010 with her poetry book “Ašun, haćar
dukh” (Listen, feel pain), and a second international poetry prize, “The golden
pen of Papusza” of Tarnów, Poland.
CEIJA STOJKA
Ceija (pronounced "Chaya") Stojka was born into a family of traveling Olah Roma (Lovari) at a time when her family was still able to live a truly traveling lifestyle. The Stojka family was one which resisted increasingly strong pressures to settle. They were forced to do so in 1939.
RAJKO DZURIC
Raјko Đurić (Serbian
Cyrillic: Рајко Ђурић, Romani: Raiko
Juric; born on October 3, 1947 in Malo
Orašje, Smederevo, Serbia, SFR
Yugoslavia) is a Serbian Romani writer and academic. He is
also politically active as the leader of one of Roma parties in Serbia - Roma Union of Serbia.He studied philosophy
at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy (1967–1972).
In 1986 he obtained a Doctorate of Sociology writing the dissertation Culture
of the Roma in S.F.R. Yugoslavia. In 1991 he moved to Berlin avoiding
involvement in the Yugoslavian wars.He wrote more than 500
articles and, until leaving Yugoslavia, was the chief redactor for the cultural
section of the newspaper Politika in Belgrad. He was the President of
theInternational Romani Union and is
the General Secretary of the Romani Centre of International PEN. His literary
works have been translated into more than five languages. In 2011, he
co-founded a Romani academy of arts and sciences in Belgrade and has been its
president since then.HEDINA TAHIROVIC SIJERCIC
Hedina Tahirović
Sijerčić was born on November 11, 1960. in Sarajevo, Bosnia - Herzegovina. She
is a journalism graduate, a writer, a poet, an educator, and the first Bosnian
television and radio presenter and producer of Romani origin.While working in
Sarajevo, she organized and hosted Romani TV and radio programs, and worked as
an activist for the International Romani Union. Later, she lived in Toronto,
Canada and worked as a teacher for the Toronto District School Board,
eventually becoming the Editor-in-Chief of the first Canadian-Romani newsletter
“Romano Lil” between 1998–2001.Ms. Tahirović Sijerčić
won the “Best Promotion” prize for her presentation of her book, “How God made
the Roma” at the XXI. International Book Fair in Sarajevo. In 2010 she won the
prize for best literary creation of 2010 with her poetry book “Ašun, haćar
dukh” (Listen, feel pain), and a second international poetry prize, “The golden
pen of Papusza” of Tarnów, Poland.CEIJA STOJKA
Ceija (pronounced "Chaya") Stojka was born into a family of traveling Olah Roma (Lovari) at a time when her family was still able to live a truly traveling lifestyle. The Stojka family was one which resisted increasingly strong pressures to settle. They were forced to do so in 1939.
During the Nazi era, all of the closest members of Ceija's family were displaced into various concentration camps. Her father was imprisoned in Dachau, where he was murdered. Ceija and her mother, sister and three brothers were first transported to Auschwitz, where her youngest brother Ossi and other relatives of hers died. Ceija, her mother and her sister later passed through the concentration camps at Ravensbrück and Bergen-Belsen, while her brothers passed through Buchenwald and Flossenbürg. After the war ended they all found one another in Vienna.
TRAJKO PETROVSKI
Dr.Trajko Petrovski, a
Rromani ethnologist from Skopje,he gave conferences during two days in Kosovo, in
Pristina university and in Education Faculty of Prizren. The subject of the
conferences was “The process of Rromani language, its standardisation and codification”.
Dr. Petrovski talked also about the relations between the language, the
ethnology and the history of the Rroms.On 22nd and 23rd of June, the Rromani
ethnologist from Skopje, dr. Trajko Petrovski, made a series of conferences in
Kosovo, in the Faculty of philology in Pristina and that of Education in
Prizren, with the theme “the language, the ethnology and the history of the
Rromani”. Dr. Petrovski, researcher of the Folklore Institute « Marko Cepenkov
» in Skopje, a dealt with some hypothesis on the arrival of the Rroms in the
Balkans. After his input, the students of the philology faculty enriched the
discussion with many interesting questions on this subject. On the second day,
in the Faculty of Education in Prizren, dr. Petrovski met with Bosnian language
students, as well as with some Rroms. The discussion of the meeting was on the
language, the identity, the culture and the history of the Rroms.
TRAJKO PETROVSKI
Dr.Trajko Petrovski, a
Rromani ethnologist from Skopje,he gave conferences during two days in Kosovo, in
Pristina university and in Education Faculty of Prizren. The subject of the
conferences was “The process of Rromani language, its standardisation and codification”.
Dr. Petrovski talked also about the relations between the language, the
ethnology and the history of the Rroms.On 22nd and 23rd of June, the Rromani
ethnologist from Skopje, dr. Trajko Petrovski, made a series of conferences in
Kosovo, in the Faculty of philology in Pristina and that of Education in
Prizren, with the theme “the language, the ethnology and the history of the
Rromani”. Dr. Petrovski, researcher of the Folklore Institute « Marko Cepenkov
» in Skopje, a dealt with some hypothesis on the arrival of the Rroms in the
Balkans. After his input, the students of the philology faculty enriched the
discussion with many interesting questions on this subject. On the second day,
in the Faculty of Education in Prizren, dr. Petrovski met with Bosnian language
students, as well as with some Rroms. The discussion of the meeting was on the
language, the identity, the culture and the history of the Rroms.