Maja Iskra

Maja Iskra grew up in Belgrade, studied in Vienna and Valencia, and has lived in Vienna for over twenty years. She is a landscape architect and media artist working at the intersection of urban development and visual communication. Her debut novel, Uppercut, was a finalist for the Serbian Beogradski Pobednik and Zlatni Suncokret Prizes in 2023, and was longlisted for the NIN Prize, the Laza Kostić Prize, and the regional Meša Selimović Prize. Her short story Hiraeth won second place at the European Short Story Festival in 2018.