Aleksandar Bečanović (born 1971 in Nikšić, Montenegro) is a Montenegrin poet, translator and a critic of literature and film. He has contributed to the Montenegrin weekly Monitor in its culture section. He is now a part of the cultural magazines Plima[1] and Ars. He is well known for his fanatic love towards the horror movies. He lists Howard Hawks as one of his favorite directors.

Bečanović received the Risto Ratković award for best book of poetry in Montenegro in 2002. He also translates material, mostly film theory, from English. He lives in Bar.

At the 2006 Pula Festival of Books and Authors in Croatia, Bečanović was one of the representative writers who presented on Montenegrin poetry.

Bečanović won the 2017 European Union Prize for Literature, for the country of Montenegro, for his novel Arcueil (2015).[2]

Published works

Anthologies

  • New European poets, St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 2008. ISBN 978-1-55597-492-3 [3]

References

  1. "ポイント無しのセフレ募集サイトやエロ出会いアプリ". www.plima.org. Archived from the original on 2010-03-16. Retrieved 2010-03-17.
  2. "Winning Authors 2017: Aleksandar Bečanović". ec.europa.eu. 21 April 2017. Archived from the original on 23 April 2017. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  3. http://virgobeta.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u4800045%5B%5D


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