Antonija Novakovic was born in Zagreb in 1979. She is a graduate student of the Zagreb Faculty of Law. For the manuscript of her first collected poems Lako mi je biti lošija (It is easy for me to be worse) she received the Goran Prize and the Bridges of Struga Prize at Struga Evenings of Poetry 2008. Her collected poems, published by the Ivan Goran Kovacic Society for Art and Culture in Zagreb 2008, were translated and published in Macedonia.

from the tram it seemed to me that someone in the neighboring cell lit a match or were these / stars that through the small window all / together flared up / and it seemed to me that I heard your voice / suddenly it was dark and the guard slid his truncheon / along the bars / someone pissed long into the Turkish closet / gold, incense, and myrrh / in long sleepless nights I think of miracles / of all those visits on Thursday / over the breath-dewed / plexiglas / resound steps in the corridor / somebody is coming to me somebody / is coming to me? / hair in the washbasin and dried dirty soap-foam / a pierced New Year’s lantern / in the end / on the floor of the low-floor tram  / that goes to Travno
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