Summary
Marko Pogačar: Latinoamericana
The travel manuscript of Marko Pogačar Latinoamericana or 1000 words of Spanish dissolves travel postcards and the usual make-up scenes of South American tourist views into an almost naturalistic landscape of scenes and people that tourists rarely meet, and when they do, they tend to avoid them. With great care and understanding, the author looks back at people and their lives, with all the bitterness, pains and joys. Every person in this book is real, the author points out and immediately adds: any resemblance to real people is accidental. The greatest value of this book lies in that fictional component, in the interpretive freedom where the resemblance to reality is accidental.
Marko Pogačar was born in 1984 in Split. He published twelve books of poetry, prose and essays, for which he received a number of national and international awards and recognitions. He edited the anthologies Hrvatska mlada lirika in 2014 and The edge of a page: young poetry in Croatia (2019). His independent books have been translated into ten languages, and individual texts into more than thirty languages. This year he is a scholarship recipient of the DAAD foundation in Berlin.
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