Maya Herman

Maja Herman Sekulić ( aka Maya Herman) is an internationally published Serbian-American author of 15 books. She is an acclaimed poet, popular novelist, distinguished essayist, bilingual scholar, and a major translator. She is also a Princeton Ph.D. in Comparative Literature who taught at the most prestigious universities such as Princeton, Rutgers, and was a guest lecturer at Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Iowa universities.

Her novel Ma Belle, now in English translation, was nominated for the 2018 international Dublin literary award. It was also nominated in 2016 for NIN, the most prestigious Serbian literary award, as were her 2 previous novels. Her Tesla biography in English Who was Nikola Tesla? The Genius who gave us Light, and her selected poems in a bilingual English-French e-edition, De La Terre de Desolation/Out of the Waste Land came out in 2016, and along with the long poem Lady of Vincha publishedl in 2017 mark a major return to her origins in poetry.

First 3 books of her Selected Works were published by 2 major Serbian publishers in October 2017 as a publishing event of the year. First in the series is Sketches for Portraits, a unique book of essays and conversations with major world writers she befriended. Second is Digital Galaxy, a multi genre book about the transition from Guttenberg to Digital Galaxy. Finally, there is her Poetry, a major collection of new and selected poems. Her new long poem, The Mighty Irina was published in October 2018 in both Serbian and English and had its premiere at the “Smederevo poets’ autumn” along with a selection of her poems in German (The Grand Plan) in the prestigious edition “Meridians”. Her new poems in English were published in the 2019 Galaxy Atunis Poetry Anthology and are being translated in Spanish by Carribian poet Ricardo Boegart and in Turkish, Italian, Mongolian and Malay as well.

In 2018 she was honoured as one of the Style Icons of Serbia in 20th and 21st century among 42 most important women in 2 centuries.

Maja Herman Sekulić is a contributing editor for major magazines and a world traveler. Born in Belgrade, where she studied World literature, she spent last decade of the last century in the Far East and now shares her time between New York and Belgrade.

She is the member of the Serbian Association of Writers, Serbian Writers’ Society, American and Serbian PEN as well as the Academy of American Poets.

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