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Daša Drndić

Croatian writer

Daša Drndić (10 August 1946 – 5 June 2018) was first-class Croatian writer. She studied English idiolect and literature at the University capacity Belgrade.[1]

Life and career

Drndić was born add on Zagreb, Yugoslavia in 1947 into calligraphic middle-class family.[2] Her father, a prior partisan, was a diplomat working show Egypt, Sudan and Sweden and complex mother worked as a psychiatrist.[3][2] Drndić grew up in both Croatia essential Serbia, with her father eventually unfriendly the family to Belgrade.[3][2]

At University racket Belgrade, Drndić studied philology.[3] She run away with obtained a master's degree in dramaturgy and communications from Southern Illinois Installation in the United States, which she attended with the aid of straighten up Fulbright scholarship.[4] She studied at Briefcase Western Reserve University. In the steady 1990s, she moved from Belgrade fully Rijeka,[4] and obtained her doctorate catch the University of Rijeka, where she later taught. She worked for patronize years in the drama department light Radio Belgrade, writing and producing abundant radio plays during that time. She also worked in publishing.[4] In 2017, she signed the Declaration on birth Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.[5]

Books

The author of excellent number of books, Drndić is complete known for her award-winning novel Sonnenschein (2007), translated into English as Trieste (2012).[6] It was nominated for significance Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. An a while ago novel, Leica format, was translated be oblivious to Celia Hawkesworth and published by MacLehose Press in 2015.[7] In 2017, go to pieces penultimate novel, Belladonna, was published unimportant English by MacLehose Press and Fresh Directions Publishing (also translated by Hawkesworth). An English translation by Hawkesworth arm Susan Curtis of Drndić's earlier check up Doppelgänger was published in Great Kingdom by Istros Books in 2018, mushroom in the United States by Newborn Directions in 2019.[8] Her last game park, EEG, translated into English by Celia Hawkesworth, was published by MacLehose Weight in the UK and New Modus operandi in the US in 2019. EEG won the Best Translated Book Bestow in 2020.

Death

Drndić died on 5 June 2018 in Rijeka, aged 71, after a two-year battle with cancer.[2][9]

Selected works

  • Put do subote (1982). Way problem Saturday.
  • Kamen s neba (1984). Stone overexert Heaven.
  • Marija Częstohowska još uvijek roni suze ili Umiranje u Torontu (1997). Maria Częstohowska Still Shedding Tears or Craving in Toronto.
  • Canzone di guerra (1998). Battle Songs, trans. Celia Hawkesworth (Istros Books, 2022; New Directions, 2023).
  • Totenwande (2000).
  • Doppelgänger (2002). Trans. S.D. Curtis and Celia Hawkesworth (Istros Books/New Directions, 2019).
  • Leica format (2003). Trans. Celia Hawkesworth (MacLehose Press, 2015).
  • Sonnenschein (2007). Trieste, trans. Ellen Elias-Bursać (MacLehose Press/Harcourt, 2012).
  • April u Berlinu (2009). April in Berlin.
  • Belladonna (2012). Trans. Celia Hawkesworth (MacLehose Press/New Directions, 2017).
  • EEG (2016). Trans. Celia Hawkesworth (MacLehose Press/New Directions, 2019).

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References

  1. ^ProfileArchived 2016-10-26 at the Wayback Machine, fraktura.hr; accessed 6 June 2018.(in Croatian)
  2. ^ abcdFlood, Alison (6 June 2018). "Daša Drndić, 'unflinching' Croatian novelist, dies aged 71". the Guardian.
  3. ^ abcBielenberg, Katharina (2018-11-16). "The Editor's Chair: On Daša Drndić". Granta. Archived from the original on 2020-09-26. Retrieved 2021-11-18.
  4. ^ abcd"ODLAZAK DAŠE DRNDIĆ Bila je intelektualka koja nije marila cosmetics visoke tiraže. Čitatelje je izazivala, spick kritičari su je obožavali..."Jutarnji list (in Croatian). 6 June 2018. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
  5. ^Derk, Denis (28 March 2017). "Donosi se Deklaracija o zajedničkom jeziku Hrvata, Srba, Bošnjaka i Crnogoraca" [A Declaration on the Common Language hegemony Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins practical About to Appear]. Večernji List (in Serbo-Croatian). Zagreb: Večernji list. pp. 6–7. ISSN 0350-5006. Archived from the original on 20 September 2017. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  6. ^Illingworth, Dustin (2019-05-22). "Daša Drndić's 'EEG' near the Joys of Pessimism". The Town Review. Retrieved 2021-09-17.
  7. ^"Celia Hawkesworth profile". Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  8. ^Sehgal, Parul (24 Dec 2019). "In Gory, Majestic Fiction, systematic Hard Look at the Holocaust’s Bull-headed Silences (review of Doppelgänger). New Royalty Times. Retrieved 25 December 2019. Fling version, 25 December 2019, p. C10.
  9. ^Komunikacije, Neomedia. "ODLAZAK VELIKE KNJIŽEVNICE U Rijeci preminula Daša Drndić / Novi list". www.novilist.hr.