Tijana Rakočević, whose short stories are published in the anthology QUEER BALKAN, answered a few flash questions.
Could you describe yourself in 3 words?
An overweight cat.
Without summarizing it, what would you say your work in the Anthology is about?
Two married women in a strictly patriarchal Montenegrin society in the previous century decide to make love to each other in a field. What could go wrong?
What does the term queer mean to you?
Unusual, vivid, all-colored.
And queer literature?
Literature about the diversity of human nature, which means: literature itself.
How queer is the literary scene in your country?
So queer that the famous Chernobyl quote "not great not terrible" should sound like: "not queer, not heteronormative".
Why do you write?
To make my father proud of me. I failed.
What’s the best an the worst writing advice you’ve ever been given?
The best: write, the world is going to end anyway. The worst: write, the world is going to end anyway.
What you have been reading lately?
Shampoo bottle labels. And Nadine Gordimer.
