Background
Goran Simic was born on October 20, 1952, in Vlasenica, Yugoslavia (now Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina). He is a son of Milorad Simic, a restaurant manager, and Radojka Simic.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Goran Simic attended University of Sarajevo.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Goran Simic attended University of Sarajevo.
(This is a collection of poetry.)
This is a collection of poetry.
https://www.amazon.com/Sprinting-Graveyard-Oxford-Poets-Goran/dp/0192880233/?tag=2022091-20
1997
(Immigrant Blues explores the personal and the public deva...)
Immigrant Blues explores the personal and the public devastations of war, especially its effects on exiled survivors. Simic's genius is to present this disturbing reality in terms so vigorous and humane that pain is mixed with the solace and pleasure of great art.
https://www.amazon.com/Immigrant-Blues-Goran-Simic-2003-12-06/dp/B01K9AJBH8/?tag=2022091-20
2003
(These newly translated poems restore all that is offensiv...)
These newly translated poems restore all that is offensive, despairing and necessary to our understanding of war by capturing the poems’ original power and humanity. In addition, this collection contains both previously unpublished poems, written "under the candlelight" of the siege, and new poems returning to the sniper’s alleys and bunkers of Sarajevo.
https://www.amazon.com/Sarajevo-Sorrow-Goran-Simic/dp/0973597151/?tag=2022091-20
2005
(These eight stories deal with ordinary people in extraord...)
These eight stories deal with ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, war and its aftershocks prominent among them, where the reality is often much more surreal than fiction. These eight stories deal with ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, war and its aftershocks prominent among them, where the reality is often much more surreal than fiction.
https://www.amazon.com/Yesterdays-People-Goran-Simic-ebook/dp/B005LJYHP4/?tag=2022091-20
2005
(Sunrise in the Eyes of the Snowman, the latest collection...)
Sunrise in the Eyes of the Snowman, the latest collection by Bosnian expat Goran Simic, is as much a departure as it is a continuance. In this book, we find the world-renowned poet visiting familiar themes in fresh ways. Sunrise in the Eyes of the Snowman, the latest collection by Bosnian expat Goran Simic, is as much a departure as it is a continuance. In this book, we find the world-renowned poet visiting familiar themes in fresh ways.
https://www.amazon.com/Sunrise-Eyes-Snowman-Goran-Simic/dp/1897231938/?tag=2022091-20
2010
Goran Simic was born on October 20, 1952, in Vlasenica, Yugoslavia (now Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina). He is a son of Milorad Simic, a restaurant manager, and Radojka Simic.
Goran Simic attended the University of Sarajevo.
After the Bosnian war of 1992-1995, Goran Simic immigrated to Canada in 1996 under the auspices of PEN Canada, and remained an active PEN member. In 1993 he initiated and was a co-founder of PEN Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1996 Simic was a senior resident of Massey College, University of Toronto. In 2000 he was writer-in-exile at the Banff Centre for the Arts. In 2006 Goran was a writer-in-residence at the University of Guelph. In 2006, Simić founded Luna Publications in Toronto, Canada. In 2013, Simic returned to live in Sarajevo.
Goran Simic is best known as the author of numerous works, including puppet plays and librettos for opera. Since 1996 his literary work has been translated into 15 languages, and was included in several world anthologies, such as "Scanning the Century" and "Banned Poetry", and in numerous anthologies in Canada and the former Yugoslavia. Poems have also been published in Norway, Poland, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland. His book "Sunrise in the Eyes of the Snowman" was awarded by Canadian Association of Authors as the best poetry book in Canada in 2012.
(These eight stories deal with ordinary people in extraord...)
2005(These newly translated poems restore all that is offensiv...)
2005(Sunrise in the Eyes of the Snowman, the latest collection...)
2010(Immigrant Blues explores the personal and the public deva...)
2003(This is a collection of poetry.)
1997Goran Simic is a member of the PEN Canada and a founding member of the PEN Bosnia-Herzegovina.
On April 1, 1982 Goran Simic married Amela. She is a translator. They have two children: Luna, Darije.
