Project Description
Nikolina Todorović, was born in 1995 in Sarajevo. She graduated from the High school of music in Sarajevo. She is a Master’s student in comparative literature at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Sarajevo. She writes poetry, prose, and literary and film criticism. She is the winner of the “Mak Dizdar 2021” award given by the “Slovo Gorčina” literary event in Stolac for the best first unpublished poetry collection. Her story Slovo was shortlisted for the third regional competition “To live a queer life”, organized by Queer Montenegro. Her poems have been translated into English, French, Russian, and Gaelic. She has published her works in various domestic and regional magazines and portals: Novi Izraz, Život, Lgbti.ba, XXZ, Bona, Strane, Nomad.ba, Libartes.rs, Kult, Affirmator… She is currently part of the project Women’s Library: Factory for Literary Criticism, organized by the Board of Women at the P.E.N. center in BiH, where she writes literary criticism for contemporary works by regional and international female authors. She is a researcher of the project “History of queer life in Bosnia and Herzegovina”, which is organized and managed by the Sarajevo Open Center. On the Lgbti.ba portal, she regularly publishes columns and reports from the world of queer culture and life. She is in charge of the anti-fascist heritage culture project, Silent Witnesses: Forgotten Monuments and Lost Voices, which is being implemented as part of the IMEP New Voices for Citizen Journalists grant. She is one of the editors of the electronic magazine Libartes.