Goran Simic was born on Oct. 20, 1952, in Vlasenica, in the former Yugoslavia, to parents who had fought as partisans against fascism during the Second World War; his grandfather was a veteran of ...

Goran Simic, a member of an expert group which has drafted Bosnia’s Transitional Justice Strategy, told BIRN that the only way forward for the Western Balkans is greater cooperation over the ...

Winter is the main event in Uppal’s collection; it’s more of an occasional metaphorical presence in Goran Simic’s Sunrise in the Eyes of the Snowman (Biblioasis, 80 pages, $18.95), though no ...

EDMONTON - Goran Simic has nothing against butterflies, but he can't write about them. In 1992, Serbian nationalists began their siege of Sarajevo. Simic was a well-known and well-read author, and ...

Goran Simic. (Bruce Bottomley Photo) Bosnian-born poet, dramatist and short fiction writer Goran Simic came to Dalhousie University last week to read from recent works, including this poem, "A Thick ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

THE TAXI PROJECT By Emma Beltrán, Martha Kuwee Kumsa, Sheng Xue and Goran Simic with Erica Kopyto and Weyni Mengesha, directed by Mengesha, with Miranda Edwards, Patrick Garrow, Mayahuel ...