{"id":785,"date":"2024-02-23T18:43:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T18:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/readersexchange-rex.com\/en\/?page_id=785"},"modified":"2024-02-25T07:31:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T07:31:56","slug":"ilija-djurovic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/readersexchange-rex.com\/en\/ilija-djurovic\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilija \u0110urovi\u0107"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;737&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ilija \u0110urovi\u0107 was born in 1990 in Podgorica, Montenegro. \u0110urovi\u0107 writes prose, poetry, plays and movie scripts. His first book of prose, They Do It so Beautifully in Those Great Romantic Novels, came out 2014 in Yellow Turtle Press, a small Montenegrin publishing house he runs. This was followed by\u00a0Black Fish\u00a0(2016) and the poetry book\u00a0Brink\u00a0(2018), which received an award at a literature festival in Belgrade. \u0110urovi\u0107 has been living in Berlin since 2013 as a freelance author. In 2019 he was co-winner of the Montenegrin theatre award for the best contemporary drama,\u00a0Sleepers. His first novel,\u00a0Sampas, was shortlisted for NIN Award and \u201cMe\u0161a Selimovi\u0107\u201d Award\u00a0for Best Novel of the Year for 2021, and also for the European Union Prize for Literature.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;737&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text] Ilija \u0110urovi\u0107 was born in 1990 in Podgorica, Montenegro. \u0110urovi\u0107 writes prose, poetry, plays and movie scripts. His first book of prose, They Do It so Beautifully in Those Great Romantic Novels, came out 2014 in Yellow Turtle Press, a small Montenegrin publishing house he runs. This was followed by\u00a0Black&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"button small blue\" href=\"https:\/\/readersexchange-rex.com\/en\/ilija-djurovic\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":737,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-785","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readersexchange-rex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readersexchange-rex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readersexchange-rex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readersexchange-rex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readersexchange-rex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/readersexchange-rex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/readersexchange-rex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/785\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readersexchange-rex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readersexchange-rex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}