Query: Mak Dizdar

[Jolanta M. Davis]

Thank you so much! Which search engine did you use if I may ask? My search
on Yahoo did not really bring anything interesting.

The book I mentioned "Kameni Spavac/Stone Sleeper" by Mehmed Alija (Mak)
Dizdar was published in 1999 by CID, Sarajevo, ISBN 9958-511-02-9, 253 pp.
Printed by Mladinska Knjiga, Ljubljana, Slovenija. It is a hardcover,
bilingual volume, with the original text on left hand pages and translation
of the verses by Francis R. Jones on the right. The afterword was written
by Rusmir Mahmutcehajic, where he says "Stone Sleeper tells about the
krstjani, the faithful of the schismatic mediaval Bosnian Church, who lie
waiting for the Day of Judgement beneath the white limestone tombs which,
singly or clustered in necropoles, still define the physical, cultural and
religious landscape of Bosnia . . ."

The volume arrived at AAASS a couple of days ago and the sender is listed as:
Bosnia and Herzegovina
City of Sarajevo
Mayor
Hamdije Kresevljakovica 3/1
71 000 Sarajevo

Overall it is a very nice book and very interesting poetry.  I'm sure it
would be very useful to teachers of South Slavic literatures.
Unfortunately, I'm not sure where one can get this book in America. Amazon,
Barnes&Noble, Harvard Bookstore, and Wordsworth do not list it.

Please let me know if you have any more questions.

Jolanta


At 07:44 AM 5/2/00 , you wrote:
>A few moments with a web search engine reveal that
>he's a translator and
>language-teaching specialist at:
>The Language Centre
>Newcastle University
>Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU
>U.K.
>tel: +44-191-222.7796 / 222.7535
>Email: F.R.Jones at ncl.ac.uk
>http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~ncrl1/pages/staff/francis_jones.html
>
>Some of his translations and memoirs are in:
>Chris Agee, ed., Scar on the Stone: Contemporary Poetry from Bosnia,
>Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books 1998.
>This book is available in the U.S. from: Dufour Editions,
>Chester Springs, PA. 19425-0007, tel. (610)458-5005.
>
>
>Now could I ask you for some further details about the Dizdar
>book?
>
>Yours,
>Wayles Browne, Cornell U., ewb2 at cornell.edu
>
>On Mon, 1 May 2000, Jolanta M. Davis wrote:
>
> > AAASS office just received a beautiful bilingual volume of poetry by Mehmed
> > Alija Dizdar with translations by Francis R. Jones. Does anyone know
> > anything about the translator?
> > thank you
> > Jolanta Davis
> > Jolanta M. Davis
> > Publications Coordinator
> > American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)
> > 8 Story Street
> > Cambridge, MA 021238, USA
> > http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/
> >
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