Description
'Drndic's formidable intelligence and Homeric intention cannot help but thrill and exalt' - The Paris Review Daily
About the Author
DASA DRNDIC (1946 - 2018) was a distinguished Croatian novelist, playwright and literary critic, author of radio plays and documentaries. She was born in Zagreb, and studied English language and literature at the University of Belgrade. She then obtained a Master's degree in Theatre and Communications from Southern Illinois University in the United States, which she attended with the aid of a Fulbright scholarship. Drndic worked as an editor, a professor of English, and as a TV programme editor in Belgrade. She obtained her doctorate at the University of Rijeka in Croatia, where she later taught. She is the author of thirteen novels including Leica Format (2003), Sonnenschein (2007), Trieste (2011) and Belladonna (2012). Her works have been translated into many languages, and Drndic has won the International Literary Award "Prozart" in 2014, awarded to a prominent author for their contribution towards the development of the literature on the Balkans. Her work has also been shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the inaugral EBRD Literature Prize.
Book Information
ISBN 9781912545926
Author Dasa Drndic
Format Paperback
Page Count 180
Imprint Istros Books
Publisher Istros Books