Tamistad Reading Sessions: Nada Topić

Tamistad is a literary project by .dıtiramb that has been running in Vienna since 2021. It acts as a platform connecting writers, translators and the audience, grounded in the principles of intercultural exchange and the concept of a global literary neighbourhood.

The project emphasises the reading as a performative act which adds new dimensions to the literary text. The readings are framed and complemented by artists from other disciplines whose work is related in various ways to the work of the invited authors.

Nada Topić I Mirza Purić
Nada Topić hosted by Mirza Purić

Nada Topić (Split, 1977) is a writer, scholar and librarian. She has published five collections of poetry, one picture book, one collection of short stories, one lyrical prose book and a novel Morpho amathonte (2020). Her work has been translated into Bulgarian, Romanian and German. She holds a PhD in information and communication sciences, lives in Solin and works as a school librarian. She leads a reading club at the Solin Public Library.

Mirza Purić is a literary translator. His most recent book-length translation is Marko Pogačar’s Neon South (Sandorf Passage, 2022) and his co-translation with Ellen Elias-Bursać of Miljenko Jergović’s Inshallah, Madonna, Inshallah will be published by Archipelago Books late in 2026. He has published translations of shorter pieces in Agni, Asymptote, Literary Hub, EuropeNow, The Well Review, The Baffler and elsewhere.

The reading will be held in English.