Slavenka Drakulić gave an interview to the Portugese newspaper Global. She talked to the journalist José Fialho Gouveia about her new book of essays published…
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Category: As If I Am Not There
Set in 1992, during the height of the Bosnian war, S. reveals one of the most horrifying aspects of any war: the rape and torture of civilian women by occupying forces. S. is the story of a Bosnian woman in exile who has just given birth to an unwanted child – one without a country, a name, a father, or a language.
The novel As if I am not there (first published in 1999), has just been translated to Ukrainian and published by Komora Books under the title Ніби…
Slavenka Drakulić will participate at Festivaletteratura festival in Mantova (Italy). At the panel La Guerra, La Scrittura, Le Donne (Two Generations, A War, A Country That Is No…
The Basque edition of “As if I am not there”, a novel about war rape in the Bosnian war, has just been published by Pasazaite, San Sebastian.…
An interview about the Iranian edition of “They would never hurt a fly” (“Azareshan be morche ham nemiresid”, Setak, Teheran, 2018) has just been published…
Slavenka Drakulic’s essays Balkan Express were made into a theatre play named by the German translation of the book, Sterben in Kroatien. Director of the play is Nada…
Yesterday there was a very successful book launch in Cinema Europa. Drakulic’s novel ‘Dora and Minotaur’ about Dora Maar was presented. The audience had a…
In Herald Scotland Finnish writer Sofi Oksanen talks about the impact of the Drakulic’s novel As If I am Not There on her writing. “Suddenly, for…
Last Saturday parts of the novel As if I am not There have been read at the lake Lago di Garda in Italy. The whole program can be…
From May 16-19, Slavenka Drakulić will participate in a meeting Thinking Together in Kyiv. See the programe here. It was announced in Eurozine. Ukraine: Thinking Together…