Every year, Sandorf selects one laureate among the previous Croatian participants in the Ulysses' Shelter project. The chosen laureate travels to several destinations of the project partners' countries and presents their work at literary festivals and other events. The laureate for 2024/2025 is Marija Andrijašević.
Marija Andrijašević (b. 1984, Split) is a Croatian writer. She holds an MA in Comparative Literature and Ethnology and Social Anthropology (2015) from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. In 2007, she won the "Goran for Young Poets" award for her book of poetry “davide, svašta su mi radili” (“david, they did things to me”). Her first novel “Zemlja bez sutona” ("The Land Without Twilight") was published in 2021. The novel was awarded the “Tportal Literary Award” for best novel in 2022 and the “Štefica Cvek” Regional Award as one of the best nine novels published in 2021 in the countries of BCSM languages. In 2023, she published a book of poetry “Temeljenje kuće” ("The Founding of a House"). She is a member of Versopolis, a European platform for emerging poets. She lives between Zagreb and Split and works with Skribonauti, an organization promoting literature within marginalized groups.
author photo by Igor Šoban