VALENTINA NOVKOVIĆ

 

Love To Everyone

 

I remember my childhood with marzipan,

skinned knees,

loud laughter

and the feeling that the world is

a huge lollipop that can be enough

for all the children of the world.

 

I also remember the pigeon traps which,

fortunately, we never caught,

because the bird is the spirit of the sky

that lives for freedom.

Childhood has a smile of eternity,

whatever it touches turns into meaning.

 

I remember it most

for the feeling

that the world is a big balloon

in which I will travel a world

full of miracles,

smiles and the need to give love

to everyone.

 

VALENTINA NOVKOVIĆ

 

VALENTINA NOVKOVIĆ (Serbia), graduate philologist, poet, prose writer, literary translator. Editor in a publishing house. Published four book of poems (Timeless 2014, Drop by drop 2018, Riddles of Tenderness, 2020,Poems to the Heaven, 2022, which won the first prize at the Fifth Drina Literary Meeting) and one prose book (Two hours from reality, 2020), Winner of many awards for poetry and prose as well as for translations. The book of stories by the famous writer and translator Rahim Karimov, "Stories for youbg people" Alma, 2019, which she translated into Serbian, received the award for the best translated prose book in 2019 by Literary Translators. Her verses have been translated into 16 world languages, and the book Odgonetke nežnosti was translated into Romanian in 2022 (Leo Butnaru translator, Timpul publisher.) She has translated individual stories and poems of more than 300 authors into Serbian, interviewed all important creators around the world and interviews were published in more widely read newspapers or magazines for culture and art. Member of the Association of Writers of Serbia and Kazakhstan, the Serbian Literary Association, and many associations in the world. Editor and host of the forum "Literary Conversations".