Speech 3: Biljana Srbljanović
Serbian playwright Biljana Srbljanović was born in Stockholm, Sweden on 15 October 1970.
She studied dramaturgy at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. Her thesis and very first play, Beogradska trilogija (“The Belgrade Trilogy”, 1995/1996), was first staged at the Yugoslav Drama Theatre in Belgrade in 1997.
Biljana gained international recognition in 1999 with her Belgrade war diary, which she wrote during NATO’s war against Yugoslavia and parts of which were published in German news magazine Der Spiegel. Her plays have been translated into several European languages and staged at theatres in various countries such as Germany, Austria, Serbia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, the US, Switzerland, the Netherlands and France. She received several cultural awards, among them the Ernst Toller Prize in 1999. In August 2006 a jury of critics from German theatre magazine Theater Heute named Biljana one of three “Foreign Playwrights of the Year” for her play Skakavci (“Grasshoppers”).
Akademietheater, 26 January 2010
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