TAMISTAD READING SESSIONS 25 - Miljenko Jergović I Maša Dabić I Mirza Purić I Dušan Chládek, 15 October

TAMISTAD READING SESSIONS 25 - Miljenko Jergović I Maša Dabić I Mirza Purić I Dušan Chládek

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Wed, 15 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm

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Wed, 15 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm (CEST)

Pygmalion Theater

Alser Str. 43, Wien, Österreich, Austria

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TAMISTAD READING SESSIONS 25 - Miljenko Jergović I Maša Dabić I Mirza Purić I Dušan Chládek
15/10 //\ 19:30 (Admission 19:00) //\ Pygmalion Theater

Live act “time to unwrap time”– Dušan Chládek

Dušan Chládek is a Viennese guitarist and composer. His pieces are inspired by piano music, above all the works of composers such as Debussy, Koechlin and Takemitsu. He has performed widely in Austria and the Czech Republic.


Miljenko Jergović hosted by Maša Dabić and Mirza Purić

Miljenko Jergović is an author, poet, columnist, journalist, essayist, editor, literary critic and documentary filmmaker. He was born in Sarajevo in 1966, where he lived until 1993 when he moved to Zagreb, where he has lived since. An author of many identities, he is a meticulous and empathetic chronicler of turbulent, incomprehensible, terrible and beautiful times, especially in the South Slavic region. Jergović is a versatile portraitist of human destinies shaped by calamitous collective and personal events. He has written more than 50 books, and his works have been translated into more than 30 languages. He has received numerous national and international awards for his work, including the Angelus prize (Poland) and Vilenica (Slovenia), as well as the Austrian Booksellers’ Honorary Award for Tolerance in Thought and Action (Ehrenpreis des österreichischen Buchhandels für Toleranz in Denken und Handeln).

Maša Dabić was born in Sarajevo. She has studied translation and interpreting studies and received her PhD at the University of Vienna, where she teaches translation and interpreting in Russian. She translates literature, theatre plays and poetry, mainly from the Balkans region. In 2017 she published her first novel Reibungsverluste (edition atelier) on the topic of interpreting in psychotherapy.

Mirza Purić is a literary translator. His recent work includes Marko Pogačar’s Neon South (Sandorf Passage, 2022) and Faruk Šehić’s Under Pressure (Istros Books, 2019). His has published in Agni, Asymptote, Literary Hub, EuropeNow, The Well Review, The Baffler and elsewhere.

The reading will be held in BCS, with consecutive interpretation into English.

Supported by Stadt Wien, BMKOES, Bezirk Josefstadt, Bezirk Margareten, Bezirk Meidling, Photo Cluster and Hotel Korotan.


Also check out other Arts events in Wien, Literary Art events in Wien, Music events in Wien.

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TAMISTAD READING SESSIONS 25 - Miljenko Jergović I Maša Dabić I Mirza Purić I Dušan Chládek, 15 October
TAMISTAD READING SESSIONS 25 - Miljenko Jergović I Maša Dabić I Mirza Purić I Dušan Chládek
Wed, 15 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm