Senka Marić

Senka Marić (born 1972) is a Bosnian writer. She is best known for her work as a poet and for her 2018 novel Kintsugi Tijela, which draws from the author's own experiences with breast cancer. Marić is also co-founder and editor-in-chief of the literary journal Strane.

Biography Senka Marić was born in Mostar, a city in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1972. She began writing poetry when she was eight years old. After finishing secondary school, she studied theater education and comparative literature at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Mostar, and the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo.

After the war, she returned to Mostar, where she now works as a poet, novelist, translator, and journal editor. She runs the online literary journal Strane, which she co-founded in 2014 with Almin Kaplan and Srđan Gavrilović. also translates others' writing from English.

She has published three books of poetry: Odavde do nigdje ("From Here to Nowhere", 1997), To su samo riječi ("These Are Just Words", 2005), and Do smrti naredne ("Until the Next Death", 2016). Kintsugi Tijela has been translated into English by Celia Hawkesworth, and was published by Peirene Press under the title Body Kintsugi in late 2022; it became the first Bosnian winner of the PEN Translates award in 2021.

Marić has also twice received the Zija Dizdarević short story award, the top prize for short fiction in the country, in 2000 and 2013.

Selected works Odavde do nigdje (poetry, 1997) To su samo riječi (poetry, 2005) Do smrti naredne (poetry, 2016) Kintsugi Tijela (novel, 2018)