Igor Štiks Explained

Igor Štiks
Birth Date:	1977 9, df=y
Birth Place:	Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia
Occupation:	Writer, academic
Nationality:	Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia
Education:	Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris Northwestern University
Period:	2000 - present
Spouse:	Jelena Vasiljevic
Awards:	Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

Igor Štiks (born 17 September 1977, Sarajevo) is a Bosnian and Croatian novelist and political philosopher. As an academic, Štiks works as a research associate at the University of Edinburgh. His novels The Judgment of Richard Richter and A Castle in Romagna have earned him multiple awards; the former has been translated into 15 languages.^[1]

Biography

Igor Štiks was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1977. During the Yugoslav wars he fled to Croatia and currently lives in Belgrade, Serbia.^[2] He has also lived in Paris, Chicago, Edinburgh, and Graz.^[3]

He earned his PhD at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris and Northwestern University and later worked and taught at the University of Edinburgh and the Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrade.^[4]

His first novel, A Castle in Romagna (Dvorac u Romagni), won the Slavić prize for best first novel in Croatia and was nominated for the IMPAC International Dublin Literary Award for 2006.^[5] His second novel The Judgment of Richard Richter, originally published as Elijah's Chair (Elijahova stolica), won the Gjalski and Kiklop Awards for the best novel in Croatia in 2006 and has been translated into fifteen languages including German, Spanish, French, Dutch, Italian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Slovenian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Finnish, Ukrainian and Arabic. In 2017 he published his third novel originally titled Rezalište.^[6]

In his scholarly work, Štiks investigated the topic of citizenship and nationalism in Yugoslavia and the Balkans.^{[7] [8]} Besides many scholarly articles and edited volumes, Štiks published a monograph, Nations and Citizens in Yugoslavia and the Post-Yugoslav States: One Hundred Years of Citizenship (2015). Along with Jo Shaw, he edited the collections Citizenship after Yugoslavia (2013) and Citizenship Rights (2013), and, with Srećko Horvat, Welcome to the Desert of Post-Socialism (2015).^[9] Štiks was honored with the prestigious French distinction Chevalier des arts et des lettres for his literary and intellectual achievements.

In addition to winning the Grand Prix of the 2011 Belgrade International Theater Festival for his stage adaptation of Elijah's Chair, Štiks wrote two more plays, Flour in the Veins and Zrenjanin. All three plays were put on stage by one of the leading post-Yugoslav theater directors Boris Liješević.

In 2017, Štiks signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.^[10]

Personal life

Štiks is married to Dr. Jelena Vasiljevic, who is a research associate at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at University of Belgrade. They live in Belgrade and have a son.^[11]

Bibliography

Novels

• The Cuts, (Rezalište), Fraktura Publishing, Zagreb, 2017.
• The Judgment of Richard Richter, originally published as Elijah's Chair (Elijahova stolica), translated by Ellen Elias Bursac, AmazonCrossing, US, September 2017.
• A Castle in Romagna, (Dvorac u Romagni), translated by Russell Valentino and Tomislav Kuzmanovic, AmazonCrossing, US, March 2018.

Theatre

• Flour in the Veins (Brašno u venama), play, bilingual edition, translated into English by Andrew B. Wachtel, Fraktura, Zagreb, 2016.

Poetry

• History of a Flood (Povijest poplave), Fraktura, Zagreb, 2008.

Scholarship / Non-fiction (author)

• The Right to Rebellion: An Introduction to Anatomy of Civic Resistance (Pravo na pobunu: uvod u anatomiju gradjanske pobune), with Srećko Horvat, Fraktura, Zagreb, 2010
• Nations and Citizens in Yugoslavia and the Post-Yugoslav States: One Hundred Years of Citizenship, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015.

Scholarship / Non-fiction (editor)

• Citizenship after Yugoslavia, with Jo Shaw, Abingdon: Routledge, 2013.
• Citizenship Rights, with Jo Shaw, Farnham and London: Ashgate, 2013.
• Welcome to the Desert of Post-Socialism: Radical Politics after Yugoslavia, with Srećko Horvat, London: Verso, 2015.

Fiction (editor)

• The Eight Ocular, selected stories by Goran Tribuson (Osmi okular: izabrane priče Gorana Tribusona), edited by Igor Štiks, Ceres, Zagreb, 1998.
• 22 in the Shadow: An Anthology of New Croatian Fiction (22 u hladu: antologija nove hrvatske proze 90ih), edited by Igor Štiks and Dalibor Šimpraga, Celeber, Zagreb, 1999.
• The Ultimate Safari through the Empire of English Language (Vrhunski safari kroz carstvo engleskog jezika), edited by Igor Štiks and Dragan Koruga, Naklada MD, Zagreb, 2001.
• New European Poets, edited by Wayne Miller and Kevin Prufer, editor for Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, and Bosnia-Herzegovina, Graywolf Press, US, 2008.

External links

• Audio recording of readings by Igor Štiks and Aleš Debeljak at the University of Chicago.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Štiks za TVSA: Pokušaji da se stvari vrate u normalu su osuđeni na propast . TVSA.BA . 11 July 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231208095238/https://www.tvsa.ba/stiks-za-tvsa-pokusaji-da-se-stvari-vrate-u-normalu-su-osudjeni-na-propast/ . 8 Dec 2023 . Sarajevo . bs-BA . May 5, 2020.
2. Web site: Snaije. Olivia. Igor Štiks on Obsessing about Traumatic Historical Events and Human Agency. 2020-10-15. Words Without Borders.
3. Book: Štiks . Igor . Elias-Bursac . Ellen . The Judgement of Richard Richter . 2017 . Amazon Publishing . 978-1-5039-4666-8 . About the Author.
4. Web site: Dr. Igor Štiks . Center for Comparative Conflict Studies (CFCCS).
5. Web site: Igor Štiks . Croatian-Literature.hr.
6. Web site: Igor Štiks: 'Osjećao sam se pomalo kao uljez u svijetu književnosti' . tportal.hr . Croatian . 10 September 2017.
7. Web site: Kožul . Dejan . May 5, 2016 . INTERVJU – Igor ŠTIKS: „Ovo je naših '100 godina samoće' ispričanih kroz 100 godina državljanstava“ . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231129180727/https://lupiga.com/intervjui/intervju-igor-stiks-ovo-je-nasih-100-godina-samoce-ispricanih-kroz-100-godina-drzavljanstava . 29 Nov 2023 . 11 July 2024 . Lupiga.com.
8. Jadžić, Miloš & Miljković, Dušan & Veselinović, Ana (eds.). (2012). Kriza, odgovori, levica: Prilozi za jedan kritički diskurs, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Southeastern Europe: Belgrade, p. 159 (in Serbian)
9. Web site: Igor Štiks. fraktura.hr. hr. 30 June 2020.
10. Web site: Derk. Denis. Donosi se Deklaracija o zajedničkom jeziku Hrvata, Srba, Bošnjaka i Crnogoraca. Večernji List. A Declaration on the Common Language of Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins is About to Appear. Serbo-Croatian. Večernji list. 6–7. Zagreb. 0350-5006. 28 March 2017. 20 September 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170920235101/https://www.vecernji.hr/vijesti/deklaracija-o-zajednickom-jeziku-iz-zagreba-donosi-se-30-ozujka-u-sarajevu-1159142. live. 5 June 2017.
11. Web site: Pleše . Mladen . Dugo nismo imali tako uzbudljivog pisca kao Igora Štiksa. Za Telegram govori o novom romanu i politici . telegram.hr . Croatian . 14 December 2019.