Barbi Markovic

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Born in Belgrade in 1980.
Studied German Studies in Belgrade and Vienna, and was editor at the Rende publishing house in Belgrade, where her first book, Izlazenje, was published in 2006.
Markovic is the author of short stories, plays, and audio plays. In 2009, Izlazenje, a Thomas Bernhard remix, was published in German under the title Ausgehen. Superheldinnen (2016) is the first novel that she has partly written in German.
Markovic has lived in Vienna since 2009.

Awards and prizes:

• 2011/2012: chosen as Graz's Stadtschreiberin (city writer).
  The results of her city-writing project were published in 2012 under the title Graz, Alexanderplatz.

 
Books in German:

• Ausgehen. Translated from the Serbian by Mascha Dabic. Berlin: edition suhrkamp, 2009.
• Graz, Alexanderplatz. Graz: Leykam Verlag, 2012.
• Superheldinnen. A novel. With translations by Mascha Dabic. Salzburg/Vienna: Residenz Verlag, 2016.

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(06. 12. 2016)