Dženana Vucic Dženana Vucic i(16053220 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Bosnian
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BiographyHistory

Dzenana Vucic is a Bosnian-Australian freelance editor and writer.

She has undertaken a PhD in English Literature at the University of Glasgow, during which time she split her time between Glasgow, Bosnia, and Melbourne: during the COVID-19 pandemic, she was based in Berlin.

She won the 2021 Kat Muscat Fellowship for a project built around her experiences as a refugee from the Bosnian war to explore how people, groups, and nations tell stories.

Most Referenced Works

Awards for Works

Blagaj, Mostar i "The sky was crumbling; so full of sun it burnt at the edges and hit", 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January - February no. 461 2024; (p. 32)
2024 shortlisted Peter Porter Poetry Prize
A Teleology of Folding, and of Dying 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 243 2021; (p. 14-31)

'For years, nobody called me by my name. In Brisbane. I was jen; in Melbourne people called me ana. It was a neat split, my name folded into a recognisable shape, the unnecessary syllables and foreign letters turned in against themselves and shushed. It is a recent thing to have claimed the full breadth of myself. Dzenana. That's what people call me now: in Bosnia, my place of birth; in Glasgow, where I'm studying; increasingly, back home in Melbourne, in Brisbane. I stopped offering the folded envelope of my identity months ago and yet still, to hear my name said aloud is a particular thrill; almost sensual, like new touch. The intimacy of it takes my breath away. I glow at its gentle syncopation, the shallow sigh of its vowels. My name is Persian for beloved. Where I am from, it identifies me : Bosniak, and : Muslims.'  (Introduction)

2021 commended Australian Centre Literary Awards Peter Blazey Fellowship
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