[10/01/26] Marković, Milena: children

Diálogos, paperback

Translated by Steven Teref & Maja Teref

Publication Date: October 1, 2026

Publisher Marketing: 

Diálogos welcomes back award-winning Serbian poet, playwright, and screenwriter Milena Marković (1974–) with a blockbuster follow-up to Sympathy for the Salami. Deca (Children) is a book-length poem which, upon publication in 2021, won the NIN Book of the Year Award, the Serbian equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. In this page-turner, Marković tells the story of her life from childhood to child-rearing in one breathless push of narrative poetry. It is as unheard-of in Serbia as it is in the United States or elsewhere for a book of poetry to become a best-seller and its author a cultural hero, but this is what Milena accomplished with this book. 

We are grateful to Steven Teref & Maja Teref for this translation especially since their translation of Sympathy for the Salami was short-listed for the National Translation Award in 2025.