Ognjen Spahić, born 1977 in Podgorica, is a Montenegrin novelist. He has published two collections of short stories, Sve to (All That, 2001) and Zimska potraga (Winter Search, 2007). His novel Hansenova djeca (Hansen’s Children, 2004) won him the 2005 Meša Selimović Prize for the best new novel from Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina. To date, Hansenova djeca has been published in French, Italian, Slovene, Romanian, Hungarian, Macedonian and English.
His short story Raymond is No Longer with Us – Carver is Dead was included in the anthology Best European Fiction 2011 published by Dalkey Archive Press in the US. In 2007 he was a writing resident at the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program. He was also the Montenegrin winner of European Union Prize for Literature for 2014.
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