Vesna Aleksic
reading for school classes
International Children’s and Youth Literature
Registration required at (030) 27 87 86 66
Vesna Aleksic (Serbia) reads from her collection of stories for children “Ja se zozem Jelena Šuman” (t: My Name is Jelena Šuman), about Jelena, an 11-year-old girl, who meets her friends and other children on a landing where they talk about everything that concerns them. These urban stories lovingly reflect the children’s worries, big and small, from accepting their own name to their deepest thoughts on the universe and death.
4th/6th grade
Vesna Aleksic was born in 1958 in a small Serbian city and now lives in Belgrade. She is as an expert advisor for kindergarten pedagogy and one of the most popular children’s and young people’s book authors of her homeland. In more than 25 novels and collections of stories she has portrayed her young subjects as sensitive, clever and creative characters, as in her children’s book ‘Ja se zozem Jelena Šuman’ (1998; tran: My name is Jelena Šuman). Her prize winning young people's book ‘Marija Modiljani’ tells of the daily lives of young Serbs following the collapse of Yugoslavia.
Registration required at (030) 27 87 86 66
Vesna Aleksic (Serbia) reads from her collection of stories for children “Ja se zozem Jelena Šuman” (t: My Name is Jelena Šuman), about Jelena, an 11-year-old girl, who meets her friends and other children on a landing where they talk about everything that concerns them. These urban stories lovingly reflect the children’s worries, big and small, from accepting their own name to their deepest thoughts on the universe and death.
4th/6th grade
Vesna Aleksic was born in 1958 in a small Serbian city and now lives in Belgrade. She is as an expert advisor for kindergarten pedagogy and one of the most popular children’s and young people’s book authors of her homeland. In more than 25 novels and collections of stories she has portrayed her young subjects as sensitive, clever and creative characters, as in her children’s book ‘Ja se zozem Jelena Šuman’ (1998; tran: My name is Jelena Šuman). Her prize winning young people's book ‘Marija Modiljani’ tells of the daily lives of young Serbs following the collapse of Yugoslavia.