The world’s first complete Bible in the Romani Carpathian dialect was presented on Sunday in Sabinov, Slovakia. Dozens of people worked on the translation for a total of 15 years. TASR was informed about this by Patrik Sýkora from The Word For The World organization.
In the novel Kamav tu [I love you], Rudi Mlinar opens up a problematic topic. Namely, “Shakespearean” love finding itself in the grip of ethnic stereotypes. The feelings that develop between the Roma boy Zoran and the girl of Slovenian roots, Milena, regardless of society’s prejudices, become not only forbidden, but even persecuted. Milena’s parents move to Australia with their daughter, but their escape does not erase the mutual affection between the two young people. This blossoms again when Milena returns to Slovenia to study and meets Zoran again completely by chance. With this, the young couple become unwanted again.
The writer Rudi Mlinar, born in Dolgi Brdy nad Prevalje, was educated in Carinthia, and later worked at the Ravne Ironworks and at the railway station in Ljubljana. He was also culturally involved all the time. For his literary work, he was chosen among the best beginner writers in Slovenia for prose (1981) and drama (1998), and later received several other awards.
The portraits of ten Slovak Roma writers, as part of the exhibit “Portraits Between the Lines” from the artist Šarlota Bottová opened on Tuesday (November 7) in the Ethnographic Museum in Martin. It was prepared by the Museum of Roma Culture in Slovakia on the occasion of the World Day of the Roma Language (November 5).
A review of Klaus Michael Bogdal’s Book “Europa erfindet die Zigeuner– ‘Europe Invents the Gypsies’ which has just been published in English.
An interview with the Roma writer Michal Šamko. He published his first Roma-Czech poem at the end of the nineties in the magazine Mladý svět. He returned to it fully only after meeting the Romani writer Milena Hübschmannová, who made him write in Romanes as well. Since then, Michal Šamko (56) has published not only in the journal of Romani studies Romano džaniben, but also in the monthly magazine for world literature PLAV.
He says “They yelled ‘gypsy filth’ at me at school. What’s worse is that they scold my granddaughter in the same way.”
Sad.
An interview with Patrik Banga, writer and journalist and recent laureate of the Magnesia Litera competition.Patrik Banga became famous as a military correspondent in the former Yugoslavia, but also as the leader of the hip hop band Gipsy.cz. He grew up in Prague’s Žižkov, which he decided to address in his book. According to him, it was a beautiful but harsh place known for its crime and excluded communities.
Maja Jovanović is a poet and ambassador of Roma culture and literature: “I find inspiration in children”
She says that it sometimes is very difficult to bare your soul through a song. Sometimes it’s easy to write a poem, but it’s a shame if it doesn’t get into the hands of readers, especially the youngest generations.
An interview with Radka Patočková who is the director of the KHER publishing house. The publisher supports the development of Roma literature in the Czech Republic. In the interview, she that young Roma authors are at a great disadvantage, and bemoans also the downward trend in the use of the Romanes.
Another discussion / interview with Patrick Banga, the young Romano author who got a coveted Czch literary prize for his first novel.
An interview of the author of a book, the anthropologist Lise Foisneau, who recently published a powerful book on the result of four years of investigation in the company of Roma from Provence.
A one-of-a-kind library in the Balkans opened in 2020 in Zagreb. Entirely dedicated to the Roma, their history, their literature and their culture, this space is open to everyone.
Being a Rom in the Czech Republic is really difficult. Parick Banga was beaten by the police in his youth. He comes from Žižkov in Prague and is 41 years old. He is in charge of blogs at iDNES.cz, at the same time runs an IT business and plays in a swing band in his spare time. Banga received the Magnesia Litera literary award for his coming-of-age story.
Another article in the press about the Romano journalist Patrick Banga whose first book won the prestigious Czech Magnesia Litera award in the new author category.
It does not please certain people. According to the article, Patrik Banga now reads almost every day that he bribed the entire jury of the Magnesia Litera award. Many people cannot accept the fact that the book award went to Rom.
Bad
“I am sincere and not politically correct,” says Patrik Banga, author of the autobiographical novel titled Skutečná cesta ven – The real way out. This book, which traces the eventful life of a Roma child and adolescent in the effervescence of the 1990s, won its author the Magnesia litera prize for the first novel.
Three Roma recently won prizes in the Czech Republic. Patrick Banga, a Romano journalist won the prestigious Magnesia Litera literary prize in the new authors category; Renata Berkyová, a historian who works on the Holocaust of Roma won a 4 month months scholarship at the Washington Holocaust Museum; and finally, the actor Marsell Bendig won the Czech Lion for supporting actor for his role in the film Banger.
Well done!
A posthumous book entitled “Tsiganes” by Patrick Williams, a French anthropology professor who died in January at the age of 73 has just been published.
We definitively disagree with the title, which is typical of the French confusion about Roma.
The Romano Journalist and writer recently published his first book called “The Real Way Out”, which won the prestigious Czech Magnesia Litera Award in the Debut category on Monday.
As a Kid, an educational counsellor predicted to him in elementary school that he would become a parasite, and the police already assigned him the role of a criminal at the age of five.
Well, wrong predictions …
On the occasion of International Roma Day, the 26th edition of the Romano suno / Roma Dream competition was launched a week ago, in which Roma speakers can express themselves creatively and publicly in their mother tongue. Moreover, thanks to the competition texts, the general public can also take a closer look at the world of the Roma. Since 1996, the competition has been organized by the non-profit company Nová škola.
33 books are nominated for the prestigious Czech Magnesia Litera award for the year 2022. Among them, a book by a Romano author, Patrick Banga entitle “True Way Out”.
An article on 4 books about exceptional women. What is truly exceptional is that one of this book is one written by a Czech Romni Elena Lacková’s called “I was born under a happy star”. The first author is Elena Lacková with her memoirs, the second is the Czech romani studies professor Milena Hubschmannová, who recorded them all, transcribed them and prepared them for printing.
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