STATEMENTS

MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Belgrade, 28 June 2007

CULTURAL ACTIVITIES IN ITALY

In the framework of the activities undertaken to promote Serbian culture and literature in Italy, the Serbian Embassy in Rome organized yesterday a meeting of poetess Duska Vrhovac with a group of Serbian citizens, journalists, lectors and students of the Roman university La Sapienca.

Ms. Tatjana Majstorovic, First Counsellor of the Serbian Embassy in Rome, spoke about the poetic work of Duska Vrhovac, which was translated to many languages worldwide, while the poetess herself read her poems in Serbian and Italian.

The ensuing discussion that was initiated by the audience focused on the literary work of the poetess and on contemporary Serbian literature.