{"id":15010,"date":"2025-09-04T14:48:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T19:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/?p=15010"},"modified":"2025-09-08T06:23:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T11:23:21","slug":"nta-longlist-sympathy-for-the-salami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/announcements\/nta-longlist-sympathy-for-the-salami\/","title":{"rendered":"sympathy for the salami longlisted for NTA!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14979\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/portfolio\/markovic-milena\/attachment\/markovic350\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/markovic350.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"350,432\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"markovic350\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/markovic350-243x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/markovic350.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14979\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/markovic350.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/markovic350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/markovic350-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/shop\/sympathy-for-the-salami\/\"><em>sympathy for the salami<\/em><\/a>, our selection from Belgrade&#8217;s punk-inspired, brutally honest and beautifully lyrical, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/milena-markovic\/\">Milena Markovi\u0107<\/a>, translated by Steven Teref &amp; Maja Teref, has been longlisted for the National Translation Award in Poetry. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/susanna-lang\/\"><strong>Susanna Lang<\/strong><\/a> says of the collection, &#8220;Whether she is describing wild parties or delirium tremens, a love affair or her grandfather grabbing his granddaughters behind the house, even her ambivalent feelings toward the disabled son to whom she gave birth when she was not much more than a child, she remains fearless.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to order a copy, click here, and use coupon code &#8220;longlist&#8221; on checkout (through October 2025). In the meantime, here&#8217;s a little sample:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3 class=\"p1\">fuck your cv<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p2\">my name is milena markovi\u0107 I was born in<br \/>zemun one april morning my mother<br \/>managed to cook breakfast for my sister and brother I tumbled out<br \/>headfirst and I was a good baby<br \/>my room was small and divided by a wardrobe into<br \/>male and female sections I remember my crib with<br \/>netting and the grown-ups came and went till<br \/>someone picked me up and changed me then I was dry and<br \/>my father smiled at me and when we went to the countryside<br \/>my father drove fast downhill as if we were in a toboggan<br \/>I had never experienced anything<br \/>so thrilling except briefly when I got drunk<br \/>before everything started spinning I went with<br \/>my brother on long walks by the river across<br \/>a bridge into the city once I hennaed<br \/>my hair and it rained and red water washed down<br \/>my neck and an older boyfriend<br \/>kissed me at the bus stop and smiled and smelled<br \/>of tobacco and dope and there was an old furnace in the woodshed<br \/>where I was sitting for hours and there was even an unhorsed carriage<br \/>and then I would lie down on the grass and I watched<br \/>people ice fishing and the sky of a poplar and the sky<br \/>the plum orchard was there and a cornfield and a very cold river and<br \/>silver trout and I gave birth prematurely<br \/>and breastfed for two years and he was nowhere<br \/>near to talking and he ran and ran all the time<br \/>and I lived alone in an apartment overlooking<br \/>the roofs and I cooked and laughed and ran and<br \/>fell and survived my name is milena<br \/>markovi\u0107 and I grew up in new belgrade<br \/>then I went to the \u0111eram farmers market and then<br \/>I returned to new belgrade quite possibly<br \/>I\u2019ll stay there till the end<br \/>I don\u2019t know how to ride a bicycle and I don\u2019t know<br \/>how to drive a car and I have difficulty with math and I know<br \/>very few things and I know that by the end<br \/>I\u2019ll learn even less.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sympathy for the salami, our selection from Belgrade&#8217;s punk-inspired, brutally honest and beautifully lyrical, Milena Markovi\u0107, translated by Steven Teref &amp; Maja Teref, has been longlisted for the National Translation Award in Poetry. 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