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Barbi Marković - Minihorror

In Minihorror, ordinary nightmares come true – humorous, surreally imaginative and always aware of the fragility of our existence.

In Minihorror, Barbi Marković tells the story of Mini and Miki and their everyday adventures in the city. Mini and Miki aren’t from around here, but they do their best to fit in and do everything right. Despite – or rather because – of this, they are constantly pursued by dangers and monsters, by catastrophes and troubles. This is a book about the nightmares of the middle class, great and small, about the horror of the perfect family breakfast, about workplace bullying and holiday disasters, about the yawning, ever-present emptiness of everyday life. In Minihorror, Barbi Marković has created a perfidious, compassionate monument to the agents of fear in our society – to read it is to feel at once caught-out and understood.

Book details

192 pages
format:140 x 215
ISBN: 9783701717750
Release date: 09.10.2023

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Authors
Barbi Marković

Born in Belgrade in 1980, Marković studied German literature. She moved to Vienna in 2006 and was Graz writer-in-residence in 2011/2012. She made headlines in 2009 when her Thomas Bernhard remix novel “Izlaženje” was published in German under the title “Ausgehen”. For her novel “Superheldinnen” (2016) she was awarded the Alpha Literary Prize, the fellowship grant of the Adelbert­von­Chamisso Prize and the Priessnitz Prize in 2019. In 2017, Marković presented her work at the Bachmann Prize and in 2018, “Superheldinnen” was adapted and staged at the Volkstheater Wien. Marković has also written numerous short stories as well as plays for stage and radio. Most recently published by Residenz Verlag: “Die verschissene Zeit” (2021).

Press

Barbi Marković meint es ernst. Sie nimmt es mit dem Horrorgenre auf. Allerdings mit sehr viel Begabung, mit Unterwanderung dieses Horrors zu Witz.
[Quelle: Katja Gasser, Ö1 EX LIBRIS]

 

Events
Lesung & Workshop
Community Center des KUNST HAUS WIEN, Krieglergasse 8, 1030 Wien
Buchpräsentation
Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus, Chausseestraße 125 D-10115 Berlin
Gruppenlesung und Gespräch
Semmelweisklinik, Hockegasse 37, Haus 4, 1180 Wien
Buchpräsentation
Literaturhaus Graz, Elisabethstrasse 30, 8010 Graz
Lesung & Meet the Author
Malta Fairs and Conventions Centre, Level 1, The National Stadium, Millennium Stand, Ħ'Attard ATD 4000, Malta
Buchpräsentation
Literaturhaus Wien, Seidengasse 13, 1070 Wien
Lesung
Buchhandlung Kurdirektion, Bahnhofstraße 6, 4820 Bad Ischl

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