Ena Selimović
@enaselimo.bsky.social
translator | writer | editor | co-founder of Turkoslavia Collective | NEA translation fellow | doctorate in comparative literature | ig@yugaduga | www.turkoslavia.com
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Ena Selimović
@enaselimo.bsky.social
· Oct 2
We're immensely proud to share with you "Airborne," a new story by @enaselimo.bsky.social:
www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/airbo...
www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/airbo...
I couldn't imagine a better home for what turned out to be by far one of the hardest pieces to write—read it over at @womenwritebalkans.bsky.social 💙
In BCMS, the word “koljeno” means “knee.” It can also be used to denote that unfortunate joint in the human body—as well as—and hopefully with more fortune—your kin (e.g., generations; descent). Perhaps knees hurt so much because they carry the weight of generations.
November 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
In BCMS, the word “koljeno” means “knee.” It can also be used to denote that unfortunate joint in the human body—as well as—and hopefully with more fortune—your kin (e.g., generations; descent). Perhaps knees hurt so much because they carry the weight of generations.
Lots of exciting panels, roundtables, book discussions, + socials happening at this year's ASEEES (Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies) convention starting NOVEMBER 20! www.newyugoslavstudies.org/aseees-2025....
November 17, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Lots of exciting panels, roundtables, book discussions, + socials happening at this year's ASEEES (Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies) convention starting NOVEMBER 20! www.newyugoslavstudies.org/aseees-2025....
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We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025! "Each of these books arrives in English in expert and accessible translations that honour the art and voice of their original authors."
tinyurl.com/f9sccz4v
tinyurl.com/f9sccz4v
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025! "Each of these books arrives in English in expert and accessible translations that honour the art and voice of their original authors."
tinyurl.com/f9sccz4v
tinyurl.com/f9sccz4v
Looking beyond to 2026—!—and grateful to be working with the one and only @alinaetc.bsky.social as guest poetry editor for Turkoslavia's fifth.
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Looking beyond to 2026—!—and grateful to be working with the one and only @alinaetc.bsky.social as guest poetry editor for Turkoslavia's fifth.
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Warwick Prize for Women in Translation longlist 2025 clairemcalpine.com/2025/11/04/w...
Warwick Prize for Women in Translation longlist 2025
Fourteen titles have been longlisted for the 8th annual award of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. The 2025 competition received a total of 145 eligible entries from 34 languages. The lon…
clairemcalpine.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Warwick Prize for Women in Translation longlist 2025 clairemcalpine.com/2025/11/04/w...
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Great titles for you to peruse! Did you know that Kim Hyesoon, Olga Tokarcszuk, Krisztina Tóth, and Han Kang are all WWB contributors? Head to our website to check out some of the pieces they've written for us throughout the years. wordswithoutborders.org
November 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Great titles for you to peruse! Did you know that Kim Hyesoon, Olga Tokarcszuk, Krisztina Tóth, and Han Kang are all WWB contributors? Head to our website to check out some of the pieces they've written for us throughout the years. wordswithoutborders.org
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ICYMI — last week @ minor lits ...
— Jack Z. Bratich interviewed by @morbidhegel.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/11/04/i...
— an extract from Nebojša Lujanović's CLOUD THE COLOR OF SKIN, translated by @enaselimo.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/11/06/c...
— Jack Z. Bratich interviewed by @morbidhegel.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/11/04/i...
— an extract from Nebojša Lujanović's CLOUD THE COLOR OF SKIN, translated by @enaselimo.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/11/06/c...
Cloud the Color of Skin — Nebojša Lujanović (tr. Ena Selimović)
There was nothing new in Fabo’s story about the car. He always launched into it by tightening and slackening his grip around the steering wheel with its treasured leather cover. Aaaay, those Bosnia…
minorliteratures.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:21 AM
ICYMI — last week @ minor lits ...
— Jack Z. Bratich interviewed by @morbidhegel.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/11/04/i...
— an extract from Nebojša Lujanović's CLOUD THE COLOR OF SKIN, translated by @enaselimo.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/11/06/c...
— Jack Z. Bratich interviewed by @morbidhegel.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/11/04/i...
— an extract from Nebojša Lujanović's CLOUD THE COLOR OF SKIN, translated by @enaselimo.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/11/06/c...
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"In the chipped rearview mirror whose corroded edges were covered with grease, the small unobstructed circle in the center framed the passenger’s face when Fabo looked from a certain angle."
– Nebojša Lujanović, tr. @enaselimo.bsky.social
– Nebojša Lujanović, tr. @enaselimo.bsky.social
Cloud the Color of Skin — Nebojša Lujanović (tr. @enaselimo.bsky.social )
minorliteratures.com/2025/11/06/c...
minorliteratures.com/2025/11/06/c...
Cloud the Color of Skin — Nebojša Lujanović (tr. Ena Selimović)
There was nothing new in Fabo’s story about the car. He always launched into it by tightening and slackening his grip around the steering wheel with its treasured leather cover. Aaaay, those Bosnia…
minorliteratures.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:49 AM
"In the chipped rearview mirror whose corroded edges were covered with grease, the small unobstructed circle in the center framed the passenger’s face when Fabo looked from a certain angle."
– Nebojša Lujanović, tr. @enaselimo.bsky.social
– Nebojša Lujanović, tr. @enaselimo.bsky.social
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"He searched frantically for a topic he hadn’t yet breached, because in those short intervals of silence, he became what he really was: a person without anyone, without a history, without roots ..."
— Nebojša Lujanović (tr. @enaselimo.bsky.social )
minorliteratures.com/2025/11/06/c...
— Nebojša Lujanović (tr. @enaselimo.bsky.social )
minorliteratures.com/2025/11/06/c...
Cloud the Color of Skin — Nebojša Lujanović (tr. Ena Selimović)
There was nothing new in Fabo’s story about the car. He always launched into it by tightening and slackening his grip around the steering wheel with its treasured leather cover. Aaaay, those Bosnia…
minorliteratures.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
"He searched frantically for a topic he hadn’t yet breached, because in those short intervals of silence, he became what he really was: a person without anyone, without a history, without roots ..."
— Nebojša Lujanović (tr. @enaselimo.bsky.social )
minorliteratures.com/2025/11/06/c...
— Nebojša Lujanović (tr. @enaselimo.bsky.social )
minorliteratures.com/2025/11/06/c...
Thrilled to share an excerpt from a book whose English translation is only available in continental Europe but took me nearly a year to complete, and grateful to @minorliteratures.bsky.social for giving it a more mobile home!
Cloud the Color of Skin — Nebojša Lujanović (tr. @enaselimo.bsky.social )
minorliteratures.com/2025/11/06/c...
minorliteratures.com/2025/11/06/c...
Cloud the Color of Skin — Nebojša Lujanović (tr. Ena Selimović)
There was nothing new in Fabo’s story about the car. He always launched into it by tightening and slackening his grip around the steering wheel with its treasured leather cover. Aaaay, those Bosnia…
minorliteratures.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Thrilled to share an excerpt from a book whose English translation is only available in continental Europe but took me nearly a year to complete, and grateful to @minorliteratures.bsky.social for giving it a more mobile home!
Just one of those words you love, unexplained. (This word: "bat" in BCMS.)
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Just one of those words you love, unexplained. (This word: "bat" in BCMS.)
This one's for all of you who, when leaves fall, thrive. In BCMS, "pasti" is the verb "to fall"—colloquially the pronunciation of its infinitive form drops the "i." In conversation, the English noun "past" (prošlost) and the BCMS verb "past[i]" (to fall) advise: Don't forget the past, lest you fall.
November 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This one's for all of you who, when leaves fall, thrive. In BCMS, "pasti" is the verb "to fall"—colloquially the pronunciation of its infinitive form drops the "i." In conversation, the English noun "past" (prošlost) and the BCMS verb "past[i]" (to fall) advise: Don't forget the past, lest you fall.
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and coming up this week ...
— Jack Z. Bratich interviewed by Daniel Lukes
— an extract from Nebojša Lujanović's Cloud the Color of Skin, translated by @enaselimo.bsky.social
— Jack Z. Bratich interviewed by Daniel Lukes
— an extract from Nebojša Lujanović's Cloud the Color of Skin, translated by @enaselimo.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 9:45 AM
and coming up this week ...
— Jack Z. Bratich interviewed by Daniel Lukes
— an extract from Nebojša Lujanović's Cloud the Color of Skin, translated by @enaselimo.bsky.social
— Jack Z. Bratich interviewed by Daniel Lukes
— an extract from Nebojša Lujanović's Cloud the Color of Skin, translated by @enaselimo.bsky.social
A lesson on coincidence (or?): The word "歩道" (ho-doh) in Japanese means "sidewalk," and the verb for "to walk" in BCMS is "hodati." Thoughts while people, lively, walk past, wondering: how we keep going; how do we keep going.
November 2, 2025 at 8:59 AM
A lesson on coincidence (or?): The word "歩道" (ho-doh) in Japanese means "sidewalk," and the verb for "to walk" in BCMS is "hodati." Thoughts while people, lively, walk past, wondering: how we keep going; how do we keep going.
Honored to have a translation of Zlatan Nezirović's brilliant story "FATHER" in the latest Blackbird journal!
blackbird.vcu.edu/father/
blackbird.vcu.edu/father/
October 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Honored to have a translation of Zlatan Nezirović's brilliant story "FATHER" in the latest Blackbird journal!
blackbird.vcu.edu/father/
blackbird.vcu.edu/father/
In English, saying “um” signals a stumbling point or a way of reserving space in time to complete your thought. Annoying though the habit can be to some, “um” coincidentally deepens in meaning when you think of the BCMS “um,” which means: mind, reason, intellect, wit.
October 29, 2025 at 8:36 AM
In English, saying “um” signals a stumbling point or a way of reserving space in time to complete your thought. Annoying though the habit can be to some, “um” coincidentally deepens in meaning when you think of the BCMS “um,” which means: mind, reason, intellect, wit.
Cherished lines of late 💙
October 26, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Cherished lines of late 💙
Honored that Asymptote is home to my translation of Faruk Šehić's poem "who came back"! Fall issue now live over at www.asymptotejournal.com!
www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/who-c...
www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/who-c...
Fall 2025
Featuring Nay Thit, Jen Calleja, Patrick Autréaux, and Johanna Drucker in our Special Feature on Attention
www.asymptotejournal.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Honored that Asymptote is home to my translation of Faruk Šehić's poem "who came back"! Fall issue now live over at www.asymptotejournal.com!
www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/who-c...
www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/who-c...
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For our DC friends! This is a really great opportunity to support literature in translation and see two of our contributors, Hamid Ismailov, and Shelley Fairweather-Vega, read in person.
Please mark your calendars and share with friends! An evening of readings and mingling—in the heart of Washington DC. This will serve as a fundraising celebration of Central Asian and Southeast European literature and literary translation!
October 22, 2025 at 12:11 PM
For our DC friends! This is a really great opportunity to support literature in translation and see two of our contributors, Hamid Ismailov, and Shelley Fairweather-Vega, read in person.
Please mark your calendars and share with friends! An evening of readings and mingling—in the heart of Washington DC. This will serve as a fundraising celebration of Central Asian and Southeast European literature and literary translation!
October 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Please mark your calendars and share with friends! An evening of readings and mingling—in the heart of Washington DC. This will serve as a fundraising celebration of Central Asian and Southeast European literature and literary translation!
SAVE THE DATE! The ASEES convention is in Washington DC this year, and the New Yugoslav Studies Association + Black Sheep Society invite you to a night of music and/or dancing and/or drinking and/or snacking (and/or crying) at Roofers Union on Saturday, November 22! Hope to see many of you there!
October 20, 2025 at 11:44 PM
SAVE THE DATE! The ASEES convention is in Washington DC this year, and the New Yugoslav Studies Association + Black Sheep Society invite you to a night of music and/or dancing and/or drinking and/or snacking (and/or crying) at Roofers Union on Saturday, November 22! Hope to see many of you there!
Thank you to the ever-brilliant Maša for trusting me to rewrite her work in another language and to the @anmlymag.bsky.social team for giving our work a home. 💙🧿 Issue 41 is out now! anmly.org/ap41/ena-sel...
October 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Thank you to the ever-brilliant Maša for trusting me to rewrite her work in another language and to the @anmlymag.bsky.social team for giving our work a home. 💙🧿 Issue 41 is out now! anmly.org/ap41/ena-sel...
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'We get to write a book again, try to imagine what motivated and prompted a writer to write what they did, what mood they were in, what tone they were going for'
In our I wish I'd made section, @jencalleja.bsky.social on a book she's always wanted to translate
www.draughtjournal.com/article/bein...
In our I wish I'd made section, @jencalleja.bsky.social on a book she's always wanted to translate
www.draughtjournal.com/article/bein...
Being Joachim Meyerhoff
<p>Writers, even if writing a retelling of an old fable or myth, immerse themselves in the works of others to emerge with work inextricably linked to
www.draughtjournal.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:59 AM
'We get to write a book again, try to imagine what motivated and prompted a writer to write what they did, what mood they were in, what tone they were going for'
In our I wish I'd made section, @jencalleja.bsky.social on a book she's always wanted to translate
www.draughtjournal.com/article/bein...
In our I wish I'd made section, @jencalleja.bsky.social on a book she's always wanted to translate
www.draughtjournal.com/article/bein...