Dženana Vucic reading ‘unutra’

Glossary

unutra: inside (oo-noo-tra)

Sve je malo ludo: everything’s a bit crazy (sveh yeh mah-lo loo-doh)

Ali u redu je: but it’s okay (ah-li oo-reh-doo yeh)

liče na nas: look like us (lee-che nah nahs)

nema šta da radi: there’s nothing to do (neh-mah shtah dah rah-di)

imamo mi vremena za sve: we have time for everything (i-mah-moh mi vre-meh-nah za sve)

ljudi kažu: molim te: people say: please (lyu-dih ka-zhu: moh-lim teh)

imamo mi dovoljno: we have enough (i-mah-moh mi doh-vo-lyno)

Dženana Vucic is a Bosnian-Australian writer, poet and 2020 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow. Her essays and poetry have been published in Meanjin, Stilts, SAND, Kill Your Darlings, Going Down Swinging, Australian Poetry Journal, Plumwood Mountain, Scum, The Australian Multilingual Writing Project, Rabbit, and others. Her work has been shortlisted for the 2019 Deakin Nonfiction Prize, the 2020 Nillumbik Contemporary Writing Prize and the 2020 Woollahra Digital Literary Award. She tweets at @dzenanabanana