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Sergej Roic Sergej Roiĉ, Swiss writer of Croatian/Serbian origin, born in Sibenik in 1959. He attended school in Bosansko Grahovo and Pula, and completed high school in Switzerland. He graduated philosophy and Italian literature at the University of Zagreb. After that he came back to Switzerland to work as a columnist in a daily "Corriere del Ticino". Besides literature and journalism, Roic deals with the problems of globalization at the Globus et Locus" association in Milan. He is a member of PEN Club della Svizzera italiana e retoromancia. He lives in Lugano. He writes in Italian. Sergej Roic is the author of a number of books. One of his most important books is Innumerable People ( Lugano, 1992). Taking over the title from Borges, he makes an original literary structure with elements of reality and fiction interwoven. This book, translated by the author himself, has been published by Alexandria Press in Belgrade in March 2003. A gap between past and future, some sort of non-time, is the framework of the book. I imagine that everything has been happening to everybody in present time, just now. There are centuries and centuries, and innumerable people, but everything is happening now, everything is happening to me. My point is that literature can be realistic as much as reality can be a literature. That's why one of my stories in the book is titled 'Making a Novel Out of My Own Life". One of Sergej Roic's stories will be published in next issue of Biblioteka Alexandria. The magazine will be devoted to the topic "Swiss Literature - Multiculturalism and Identity". |
