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What the Deliberate Targeting of Libraries Reveals About the Nature of War

What the Deliberate Targeting of Libraries Reveals About the Nature of War

Priscilla Morris on the Burning Books and Besieged City That Inspired Her Novel

By Priscilla Morris | August 20, 2024

“To Become a Poet is to Step Into the Void.” Brian Henry on Slovenian Poet Tomaž Šalamun

“To Become a Poet is to Step Into the Void.” Brian Henry on Slovenian Poet Tomaž Šalamun

With Poems Translated by Brian Henry

By Literary Hub | May 22, 2024

What Fiction Can Reveal About the Fragile Fabric of Our Societies

What Fiction Can Reveal About the Fragile Fabric of Our Societies

Aminatta Forna on Over Two Decades of Literary Excavation of Sierra Leone’s Civil War

By Aminatta Forna | January 29, 2024

Inhabiting the Mind of the Worst Kind of Collaborator: A Nazi Kapo

Inhabiting the Mind of the Worst Kind of Collaborator: A Nazi Kapo

David Rieff on the Novelist Aleksandar Tišma, Whose Writing Was an Antidote to Banality and Kitsch

By David Rieff | September 20, 2021

Vesna Maric on the Freedom of Working Outside Historical Fiction’s Rules

Vesna Maric on the Freedom of Working Outside Historical Fiction’s Rules

Otherppl">In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | March 10, 2021

Kosovo declares Peter Handke

Kosovo declares Peter Handke "persona non grata" as Nobel controversy continues.

By Corinne Segal | December 12, 2019

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Nadifa Mohamed and Aleksandar Hemon: What It Means to Be Displaced

By Literary Hub | July 1, 2019

Undercover at the Miss Ex-Yugoslavia Pageant

By Sofija Stefanovic | April 17, 2018

Growing Up a Refugee, Confronting Shame and Sensationalism

By Pajtim Statovci | May 19, 2017

Dubravka Ugrešić: “Who am I, Where am I, and Whose am I?”

Dubravka Ugrešić: “Who am I, Where am I, and Whose am I?”

The winner of the 2016 Neustadt International Prize for Literature

By Literary Hub | November 10, 2016

How the Yugoslav Wars Shaped a Generation of Writers

How the Yugoslav Wars Shaped a Generation of Writers

Lidija Dimkovska on the Other Lost Generation

By Lidija Dimkovska | October 7, 2016

10 Books by Women We'd Like to See Translated: Balkan Edition

10 Books by Women We'd Like to See Translated: Balkan Edition

Macedonia, and Montenegro">A World of Literature from Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia,
Macedonia, and Montenegro

By Will Firth | May 19, 2016

Charles Simic on One of the Great Holocaust Novels of Yugoslavia

Charles Simic on One of the Great Holocaust Novels of Yugoslavia

Aleksandar Tišma: “All my novels are autobiographical.”

By Charles Simic | February 16, 2016

Zagreb: Dark Heart, Darker Lit

Zagreb: Dark Heart, Darker Lit

Zagreb Noir">Ivan Sršen Introduces Zagreb Noir

By Ivan Srsen | December 7, 2015

Memories of Pan-Yugo Angst

Memories of Pan-Yugo Angst

Sara Nović on Discovering Dubravka Ugrešić Far From Home

By Sara Nović | May 28, 2015