Ognjen Spahi (born 1977 in Podgorica, Montenegro), is a Montenegrin novelist. Spahi has published two collections of short stories: Sve to (All That, 2001) and Zimska potraga (Winter Search, 2007). His novel Hansenova djeca (Hansen's Children, 2004) won him the 2005 Meš a Selimovi Prize for the best new novel from Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina. To date, Hansenova djeca has been published in French, Italian, Slovenian, Romanian, Hungarian, Macedonian and English by the UK publisher Istros BooksHis short story "Raymond is No Longer with Us-Carver is Dead" was included in the anthology Best European Fiction 2011 published by Dalkey Archive Press in the USA. In 2007, he was a writing resident at the University of Iowa's International Writing Program. [1]In 2011, he was the recipient of Romania's Ovid Festival Prize, [2] awarded to a prominent young talent.
