Tue, Jun 09
|Backstory English Bookshop
Backstory Talks: Monika Radojevic
On Love, Language and Finding Home: the daughter of immigrants tells her parents' love story
Time & Location
Jun 09, 2026, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Backstory English Bookshop, Carrer de Mallorca, 330, L'Eixample, 08037 Barcelona, España
About the event
Join us for an evening with Monika Radojevic, one of the most exciting voices in contemporary British literature. Born in London to a Brazilian mother and a Montenegrin father, her writing has always been rooted in the questions that come with carrying multiple worlds inside you — identity, belonging, language and love.
An inaugural winner of the #Merky Books New Writers' Prize, Stormzy's Penguin Random House imprint dedicated to uplifting underrepresented voices, she has since published three books. Her debut poetry collection Teeth in the Back of My Neck (2021) established her as a fierce and urgent voice on womanhood and identity. Her short story collection A Beautiful Lack of Consequence (2025), awarded the Cosmopolitan Best Short Story Collection of 2025, weaves the surreal with the everyday across thirty tales about the ways the world bends and breaks women — and what happens when they snap back. Her…