Book Launch: Ljubav kaže idemo — Nina Dragičević

Dr Nina Dragičević (Slovenia)

Dr Nina Dragičević (Slovenia) is a poet, writer, composer and sociologist. She is the author of ten books of poetry, essays and theory, as well as numerous sound-poetry compositions and installations. Recognized for pronounced formal and stylistic hybridity and linguistic innovations, her work has been described by critics as striking, pioneering and magnificent, as well as a powerful, forceful poetry that deserves great attention. Dragičević is the recipient of the Cankar Award for 2026, the "Lastovka" award for 2025, the "Werner Düttmann" scholarship for 2023 (Academy of Arts in Berlin), the "Dr Ana Mayer Kansky" award for 2023, the Jenko Prize for 2021, the Župančič Prize for 2020, and two "Knight of Poetry" awards.

Awards and recognitions

• Dragičević is the recipient of the Cankar Award for 2026
• "Lastovka" award for 2025
• "Werner Düttmann" scholarship for 2023 (Academy of Arts in Berlin)
• "Dr Ana Mayer Kansky" award for 2023
• Jenko Prize for 2021
• Župančič Prize for 2020
• two "Knight of Poetry" awards

Quotes

"Ljubav kaže idemo" is a complex and moving story of survival. — Domen Slovinič (Literatura)

"Ljubav kaže idemo is a tour de force, a flowing stream of words, sounds, thoughts, voices, emotions, merciless rhythms; constantly mobile, restless, polyphonic, an elusive poem soaked in the intensity of contemporary life, precarious struggles, urban pulse, hidden realities, trapped inside an impermeable hum as the absolute intensity that surrounds us quietly or loudly, flowing as singular meaning and manifesting in forms of relations, intimate and public, through the construction and disappearance of subjectivity within games of power, in collision with power plays." — Luka Zagoričnik (Centralala)

The book was published with the support of the Department of Culture of the City of Novi Sad.