Nenad Šaponja
On October 17, 2025, at 1 pm, at the Frankfurt Book Fair, seven international publishers and I will gather at the Pilipinas Stage, Philippine Stand Hall 5.1 A95 & B95 to celebrate the translations they have done of my fiction.
To honor these publishers who are working hard to finish their translations for FBM25, I'm going to highlight each one of them in my blog. I'll be posting the covers of the book, in the various editions. If the featured publisher's cover isn't done yet, check back in.
Meet Nenad Šaponja!
Nenad Šaponja translated into Serbian Cecilia Brainard’s novel, The Newspaper Widow as Journalist under the imprint of Agora Publishing House. Šaponja is the owner and editor-in-chief of Agora, which he founded in 2002. It is one of the most renowned publishing houses in the Balkans, through which he has edited and published more than 400 titles.
Šaponja, who lives in Novi Sad, Serbia, began his career as a neuropsychiatrist. He later followed his innermost calling and started writing poetry. His poetry fuses his backgrounds as neuropsychiatrist and poet, and gives a deep insight into the human mind. His verses are recognizable in contemporary Serbian poetry due to their stylistic perfection, hermetic quality and metaphysical insight. His poetry has been translated into more than ten languages and he has received prestigious regional awards. An essayist and literary critic as well, he has published eight books of poetry, three books of literary criticism, and a travel book.
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The Newspaper Widow
A Different Kind of Mystery/Detective Novel
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard’s novel, THE NEWSPAPER WIDOW, is a literary mystery set in the Philippines in 1909, shortly after the Spaniards lost to the Americans, and the Americans occupied the Philippines. The widow Ines and her friend the French seamstress Melisande solve the crime of the dead priest in the creek in order to free the son of Ines from jail. Inspired by her great-grandmother who was the first woman publisher in the Philippines, Brainard has written a character-driven novel that raises interesting and complicated questions about morality and justice while the protagonist searches for the priest’s true killer. What begins as a murder mystery transforms into something greater as love, loyalty and friendship are tested and refined.
READ ALSO
https://www.maticasrpska.org.rs/letopis_517_3/ (Matica Srpska (The oldest Serbian Literary, Cultural and Scientific Institution Journal) - with Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's story "Felix Santa Maria"
Celebrating Translations of Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's Fiction - with Press Release
Cecilia Brainard Fiction: The One-Night Stand at the Frankfurt Book Fair
Cecilia Brainard Fiction: After the Ascension
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