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Ana Ilic

Translation for BabelFAmily by Caroline Williamson

When: Tuesday 31 January 2012, 6pm – 7.30pm
Where: King Milan, 48, Belgrade

Description: Ana Ilic will come and speak publicly for the first time about her first book . Verses from the book will be read aloud by actress and writer, Ivana Mihic and television host and writer, Jelena Bacic Alimpii?. Svetlana Polak, poet and writer, will also speak about the book.
Promotion organized by writer Ivana Kuzmanovic.
Music program: Zoran Stojic Stojke, acoustic guitar.
Cocktail party hosted by Laguna Publishing House

Guests will also have the opportunity to buy the book at the promotion, as well as to design their own customized ‘heart’, with all proceeds from purchases going to fund treatment for the author, Anna Ilic.

About the book

With the weight of that unwavering word, “incurable”,  Ana decided to distil her unique poetic gift which is revealed through her own creative power. From each of her songs comes a voice with a maturity far beyond her years, speaking of light, of truth and of knowledge.

Up until the age of nine, Ana was no different from any other child except, perhaps, for the extraordinary results she achieved in her first years of schooling. Then, suddenly, she was diagnosed with Friedreich’s Ataxia: a rare, serious and insidious disease, which has no known cure. In a short space of time she had become wheelchair-bound, with a number of serious secondary diagnoses accompanying the primary one, such as cardiomyopathy, skeletal deformities, fatigue, muscle weakness and diabetes.

Ana's personality shines through, and her songs touch deep inside the soul, forcing the reader to seek answers to the important questions in life.

Ivana Kuzmanovi?