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Sibila Petlevski<\/strong>, born on May 11, 1964, in Zagreb, is an award-winning novelist, poet and playwright, librettist, literary translator and editor of literary and scientific publications, researcher in the field of theater studies and interdisciplinary science, full professor at the Academy of Dramatic Arts. University of Zagreb,<\/p>\n She graduated in Comparative Literature and English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb in 1988 receiving her master’s degree in 1991 with the thesis entitled “Theoretical Systematization of Branko Gavella”. She obtained her PhD in humanities from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb in 1996 (thesis on “Modernism, Examples from Croatian Theatre and Dramatic Literature in the Central European Context”). Since the year 1996, she has been permanently employed at the Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb. She became a Full Professor in 2009. She was awarded tenure status in 2015.<\/p>\n So far, she has written twenty-five books of various literary and scientific genres, edited eight scientific books, and compiled and translated an anthology of American poetry. She has written six plays (two of which have won international awards) and several musical plays\/ opera librettos).<\/p>\n Sibila Petlevski is a corresponding member of the French Academy of Literature L’Acad\u00e9mie Mallarm\u00e9<\/em> (the only one from Croatia and one of the few women members in the entire history of the French Poetry Academy). She is a member of L\u2019Acad\u00e9mie Europ\u00e9enne de Po\u00e9sie<\/em>, and a number of professional associations such as the Croatian Writers ‘Association, the International Society for English Studies, the Croatian IT-UNESCO Center, the Croatian Society of Theater Critics and Theatre Scholars.<\/p>\n She was the president of the Croatian Center of International PEN – the world association of writers – and served two terms in the seven-member International Committee of International PEN. She is a member of several international advisory boards of scientific journals such as Interpretations, European Journal of Poetics and Hermeneutics<\/em> of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts MASA, and the journal of systems theory – Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems<\/em> – INDECS.<\/p>\n In addition to the already mentioned membership in the councils of international scientific publications, she was the editor of several domestic and foreign literary journals. From 1993 to 2015, she was a member of the editorial board and operative editor of the literary magazine Republika (renamed the Literary Republic). She was one of the founders of the newspaper for literature, art and science Vijenac Matice Hrvatske<\/em>, whose literary pages she edited from 1993 to 1995. From 2001 to 2004 she was the editor of Croatian poetry in the international electronic journal of the renowned European poetry foundation The Poetry International Foundation <\/em>in Rotterdam. Since 2003, she has been a member of the international editorial board of Sarajevo Notebooks<\/em>.<\/p>\n She is the winner of the annual Vladimir Nazor Award<\/em> (1993), the City of Zagreb Award<\/em> for Contribution to Science and Literature (2015), the Petar Bre\u010di\u0107 Award<\/em> for Theoretical Dramaturgy (2001), the T-Portal A<\/em>ward for Best Croatian Novel in 2010. She was awarded the International Poetry Prize Poeteka in 2004 (Dra\u010d, Albania). Her play “Ice General” was awarded the European selection Berliner Festspiele St\u00fcckemarkt<\/em> in 2005, and her play “Lyrebird” was awarded the selection at the international competition 10th Women Playwright’s International<\/em> in 2015. She was awarded the International Crystal Vilenica Award<\/em> (Slovenia) in 2020.<\/p>\n Sibila Petlevski’s work has been represented in national and international anthologies. Her sonnets originally written in English were included in her anthology 50: A Celebration of Sun & Moon Classics<\/em>, Los Angeles, 1995, in a selection of world classics such as Andre du Bouchet, Tristan Tzara, Mohamed Choukri, Raymond Queneau, Liliane Giraudon, Armand Gatti, F. T. Marinetti, Milo de Angelis, Rosita Copioli, Alfredo Giuliani, Friederike Mayrocker, Kurt Schwitters, Heimito von Doderer and Paul Celan.<\/p>\n Her poems have been included in several anthologies of Croatian poetry published in Croatia and abroad, and several anthologies of contemporary European and world poetry such as the anthology of the European Academy of Poetry \u201cPoetry Europe\u201cpublished by Dedalus Press in 2009 in Dublin, as well as in the anthology of world poetry “Anthologie de la po\u00e9sie mondiale”, published in Editions Caract\u00e8res, Paris 2020.<\/p>\n In addition to fiction and poetry titles, she has published several academic books and about 70 scientific papers, most of which belong to the category of original scientific papers in the field of art and philology with special interest in interdisciplinary theory of performance and theater aesthetics.<\/p>\n She was the president of the Croatian Scientific Council for the Humanities, the head of the Dramaturgy Department at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, and a member of the University of Zagreb Arts Council.<\/p>\n She has led several international scientific projects. The work of her research group in the four-year project How Practice-led Research in Artistic Performance Can Contribute to Croatian Science<\/em> (2015-2019), supported by the Croatian Science Foundation, received high marks in international evaluation. She was the principal researcher in a project supported by the Croatian Ministry of Science – Discursive Identity in the Performing Arts: Bodies, Persons, Intersubjects<\/em> (2006-2011) as well as in the project Theatrum mundi: research at the crossroads of art and science<\/em> funded by the University of Zagreb in 2014.<\/p>\n In addition to a rich literary bibliography, she has published four monographic scientific books in the field of philological and theatrical sciences, she has edited eight books, compiled one anthology with an introductory study, and one textbook. She edited a selection from the work of Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer and Branko Gavella\u2019s theoretical writings. As the editor and author of scientific studies, she revitalized the scientific and dramaturgical opus of Vladan \u0160vacov.<\/p>\n Petlevski co-edited a selection of scientific papers dedicated to the life and work of Academician Nikola Batu\u0161i\u0107: Permanence of the Act: Proceedings in Honor of Nikola Batu\u0161i\u0107<\/em> \/ editors B. Senker, S. Petlevski, M. Bla\u017eevi\u0107 \/, Croatian ITI Center, Zagreb 2011. She is the author of a critically commented anthology of American poetry. She has also edited four proceedings of international scientific conferences.<\/p>\n She gave invited lectures at the following universities: Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 (2017); Faculty of Philosophy \/ University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (2017); Institute of Slavic Studies, Paris, France (2006); Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Skopje, Macedonia (2006); Faculty of Letters – ALW Amsterdam, Netherlands (2000); Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh, UK (1998). She mentored PhD students at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Ljubljana; she taught and mentored at the Postgraduate Study of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, and mentored at the Doctoral Study of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zadar.<\/p>\n As a long-time artistic director of the Literary Festival ” Literature Live “, she brought several hundred foreign authors to Croatia, presenting a pleiad of renowned writers, including several Nobel Prize winners, whose work she presented live and in festival editions. Through her public activities, she actively contributed to the reputation of Croatian culture abroad.<\/p>\n From 1989 onwards, she has had literary readings at numerous world literary festivals and has continuously participated in international scientific and professional conferences.<\/p>\n Participation in international literary events<\/strong><\/p>\n Institutional functions:<\/strong><\/p>\n Memberships in scientific and professional associations:<\/strong><\/p>\n Memberships in international literary academies and art associations:<\/strong><\/p>\n Awards and scholarships:<\/strong><\/p>\n Poetry (books):<\/strong><\/p>\n Novels:<\/strong><\/p>\n Plays and musical drama:<\/strong><\/p>\n Scientific books:<\/strong><\/p>\n Scholarly books and anthologies:<\/strong><\/p>\n Edited academic books: <\/strong><\/p>\n Edited academic books accompanied by scientific studies:<\/strong><\/p>\n Scientific papers (selection):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
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\nBerliner Festspiele St\u00fcckemarkt – Selection Award for the New European Drama 2005.
\nCroatian original translated into German by A. Bremer, Premiere: Croatian National Theater Vara\u017edin February 28, 2007 (stage reading, A. Armanini and K. Kr\u010dar);
\nRadio premiere of HRT 3 (2006 Directed by R. Mesari\u0107;
\nGerman version of the play translated by A. Bremer: Relations (3-4, 2006), p. 152-185.
\nCroatian version first published in Forum 2010 1-3, p. 213-283.<\/li>\n
\nOriginally written in English. The author’s translation into Croatian published in the magazine Kolo. Matica hrvatska 1 magazine, spring 2000. p. 275-433 with introductory text by academician Nedjeljko Fabrio.<\/li>\n
\nThe play was originally written in English. The author’s translation into Croatian was premiered as a radio drama on HRT3, June 19, 2008.<\/li>\n
\nOriginally written in English. Selection Award and Stage Reading at the 10th Women Playwrights International Conference<\/em> in Cape Town 2015<\/li>\n
\nWritten in Croatian. Composed by Mladen Tarbuk under the title “Mexicana”. Premiered on 8.11. In 2016, the HRT Choir under the direction of Mladen Tarbuk – Blagoja Bersa Hall. Zagreb. A recording of a concert from the Sfumato cycle. HRT 3 live 8.11. 2016<\/li>\n\n
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