Kaplan, Almin

Almin Kaplan © S. Borozan

Almin Kaplan, born in 1985, is a Bosnian poet and prose writer. He is one of the founders of Strane strane.ba, an important internet portal for literature and culture in the region. Kaplan has published in many literary magazines in the country, and has been awarded several literary prizes. He has published several volumes of poetry, a collection of short stories (Dubravske priče), and two novels, Trganje and Meho. Kaplan lives in the village of Rivine near Stolac.

Festival Content

reVERSible Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian – German

READING – This year’s reVERSible translation workshop will feature poetry from four successor states of the former Yugoslavia: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, and Serbia. Four cultural institutions from the four countries are gathering to make such an encounter possible.

Alajbegović, Bjanka • Brlek, Alen • Burkhardt, Sandra • Chana, Daniela • Ćorac, Nikola • Füchsl, Franziska • Garzetti, Sascha • Kaplan, Almin • Lange, Norbert • Radičević, Jana • Schmitzer, Stefan • Seničić, Maša • Urweider, Raphael • Vasić, Bojan • Vidaić, Martina

POETRY IN CONVERSATION REVERSIBLE: Shared language there, German-language here

READING AND TALK WITH REVERSIBLE AUTHORS – Poets from multiethnic Bosnia and Herzegovina will speak with their verse-smuggling partners from the Alpine region about their experiences with multilingualism, dialects, and a “common” language.

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Alajbegović, Bjanka • Chana, Daniela • Garzetti, Sascha • Kaplan, Almin