Jelena Lengold Explained

Jelena Lengold
Birth Date:	1959
Birth Place:	Kruševac
Occupation:	Poet, novelist, journalist
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Notableworks:	Vašarski Mađioničar (Fairground Magician)
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Awards:	EU Prize for Literature

Jelena Lengold (born in 1959 in Kruševac) is a Serbian poet, novelist and journalist. A longtime cultural reporter for Radio Belgrade, Lengold has published a number of books, including poetry, novels, and short stories. Her short story collection Vašarski Mađioničar or "Fairground Magician" as it translates in English,^[1] was published by Istros Books in 2013. "Fairground Magician" won the EU Prize for Literature.^[2]

Works

Poetry collections

• Raspad botanike (1982)
• Vreteno (1984)
• Podneblje maka (1986)
• Prolazak anđela (1989)
• Sličice iz života kapelmajstora (1991)
• Bunar teških reči (2011)
• Izaberi jedno mesto (2016)

Short story collections

• Pokisli lavovi (1994)
• Lift (1999)
• Vašarski mađioničar (2008, 2009, 2012)
• Prestraši me (2009)
• U tri kod Kandinskog (2013)
• Raščarani svet (2016)

Novels

• Baltimor (2003, 2011)
• Odustajanje (2018)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Jelena Lengold EU Prize for Literature. www.euprizeliterature.eu. 2019-12-20. 2020-01-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20200126181401/http://www.euprizeliterature.eu/authors/jelena-lengold. dead.
2. Web site: EU Prize for Literature - Jelena Lengold.