1 September 2010
The recipient of the CEI Fellowship for Writers in Residence for the year 2010 is:
Maja Hrgović, Croatia
The CEI Fellowship Committee:
The prose of Maja Hrgović represents a new and efficient voice on the Croatian literary scene. Her style that is probably a consequence of her journalistic experience is topped by a theme of women with complicated and complex personalities.
She writes about modern women, who are decisive, intelligent and marked by their social role, the latter often going away from the traditional one and into different domains of men. Precisely this crossing of borders is the second main theme of her prose, which has been much appreciated by her audience and is dealt with a great thoroughness.
This mixture of features marks the project that was awarded this year’s scholarship. It is a story of contemporary female migrants who will change the image of the world and its culture as we know it.
