Dubravka Ugrešić was born in 1949 in Croatia. She worked for twenty years at Zagreb University, successfully pursuing parallel careers as an award-winning writer and a literary scholar. In 1991, when the war broke out in the former Yugoslavia, Ugresic took a firm anti-nationalistic stand and consequently an anti-war stand. She started to write critically about nationalism (both Croatian and Serbian), the stupidity and criminality of war, and soon became a target of the nationalistically charged media. She was proclaimed a ‘traitor’, a ‘public enemy’ and a ‘witch’, ostracised and exposed to harsh and persistent media harassment. She left Croatia in 1993. Dubravka Ugresic has continued writing since she began living abroad, and has published both novels and books of essays. Her books have been translated into more then twenty languages and she has received several major European literary awards. Ugresic is now based in Amsterdam and works as a freelance writer. She is a finalist for the 2009 Man Booker International Prize, to be announced in May.
Books by Dubravka Ugrešić
