Dubravka Ugresic: 6 books

Finalist for the NBCC award for Criticism. "Ugresic is sharp, funny and unafraid. . . . Orwell would approve."-Times Literary Supplement Over the past three decades, Dubravka Ugresic has established herself as one of Europe"s greatest-and most entertaining-thinkers and...

"Ugresic is sharp, funny and unafraid. . . . Orwell would approve."-Times Literary Supplement Hurtling between Weltschmerz and wit, drollness and diatribe, entropy and enchantment, it's the juxtaposition at the heart of Dubravka Ugresic's writings that saw Ruth Franklin dub her "the...

•Initial print run will be 8,000 or higher. •First novel in almost a decade from cult favorite Dubravka Ugresic. •NBCC Finalist for early book from Open Letter (Karaoke Culture) bodes well for coverage of this novel. •As does the fact that she just won the Neustadt Prize,...

“Multilayered narratives come together as an exploration of femininity, identity, mortality, and folklore’s wondrous powers.” —Booklist According to Slavic myth, Baba Yaga is a witch who lives in a house built on chicken legs and kidnaps small children. In Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, internationally...

In the midst of the Yugoslav wars of the early 1990s, Dubravka Ugresic—winner of the 2016 Neustadt International Prize for Literature—was invited to Middletown, Connecticut as a guest lecturer. A world away from the brutal sieges of Sarajevo and the nationalist rhetoric of Milošević, she instead...

Having fled the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, Tanja Lucic is now a professor of literature at the University of Amsterdam, where she teaches a class filled with other young Yugoslav exiles, most of whom earn meager wages assembling leather and rubber S&M clothing at a sweatshop they call the...