Brilliant and inspiring, yet deeply scarred by the Siege of Sarajevo, Goran Simic was a prolific poet, essayist, journalist, librettist and producer of puppet plays. His literary journey began in ...

Even in the former Yugoslavia, poet Goran Simic was something of an anomaly, a Bosnian Serb who took a Muslim bride. But it is only here and now, in his adopted Canada, that he begins to ...

Winter, even as it fades into spring, isn’t just a season. It’s a critical part of our cultural identity as Canadians, referenced in everything from Glenn Gould’s groundbreaking 1967 radio ...

Goran Simic. Photo supplied by author. Srđa Pavlović teaches at the University of Alberta. He is Montenegrin by birth, and a cosmopolitan by way of life. He is a prominent historian, whose work ...

An unremitting, relentless nostalgia permeates Immigrant Blues, Bosnian poet Goran Simic’s first collection since his Sprinting from the Graveyard encapsulated the siege of Sarajevo in 1997. The new ...

In Goran Simic we have a modern problem: a major writer – Simic is one of the leading poets of his native Bosnia, which he escaped with his family in 1995 – working in the language of his country of ...