Jugoslovenska Kinoteka

In Jugoslovenska Kinoteka, Shira Wolfe's cinematic poetry reads like scenes from a movie, describing a period of her life spent in Belgrade and traversing the Balkans – from Sarajevo to the Bay of Kotor, from Stara Planina to Mount Avala. Most of all, it is an ode to the Belgrade of her past and the relationships she formed there, constellating around that city and continuously reappearing elsewhere in encounters fuelled by synchronicity. In her world, cities become smells; statues can be read; and the boundaries between art and life, between self and other, are always blurred.

Jugoslovenska Kinoteka is published as a bilingual edition in English and Serbian. The Serbian translation is a collaborative effort by Shira Wolfe and Marko Mladenović.​

Shira Wolfe was featured in The Markaz Review with the poem 'Tracing Darwish' from her collection Jugoslovenska Kinoteka.

Shira Wolfe is a Dutch-American writer, poet and translator from Amsterdam. After completing her masters in International Performance Research, with a project about Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, she lived in Belgrade on and off between 2016 and 2021. She is the author of the self-published poetry trilogy Wider Than the Sky (2021), Wider Wings (2022) and Fallen Angel (2023), and contributed to the anthology Vreselijk verlangen. Een verzameling smachtende Mammoetjes (HetMoet Publishing, 2023). Shira leads poetry and writing workshops for asylum seekers in the Netherlands through the organisation De Vrolijkheid, and frequently collaborates with The Mystifiers, a socially engaged music collective. She is also a translator for the publication series Archival Textures.

Marko Mladenović (1975) is a Serbian translator. Some of his more notable translations are: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, The Inheritors by William Golding, Sabbath's Theater by Phillip Roth, The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard. He lives and works in Belgrade.