Dubravka Ugresic

• Nov-1993
• / Literary
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Ironic, playful, and multilayered, winner of three major prizes for the best Yugoslav novel of 1988, this beguiling novel-about-a-novel is set at an international literary conference in Zagreb. It begins with the death of an anti-Franco poet who slip...

• Nov-1993
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• Feb-2002
• / Literary
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Critically acclaimed experimental, literary fiction by the famous Croatian exile author.

• Jun-2005
• / General Fiction
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From the author of Baba Yaga Laid an Egg and Thank You for Not ReadingFrom the story of Steffie Cvek to "The Kharms Case," the pieces in Dubravka Ugresic's collection Lend Me Your Character are always smart and endlessly entertaining. The former stor...

• Mar-2006
• / General Fiction
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Having fled the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, Tanja Lucic is now a professor of literature at the University of Amsterdam, where she teaches a class filled with other young Yugoslav exiles, most of whom earn meager wages assembling leather and rubbe...

• Oct-2008
• / General Fiction
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"Ugresic is sharp, funny and unafraid. . . . Orwell would approve." -- Times Literary Supplement

"Every day and age has its rules. Currently, good behavior dictates that we be politically correct, evade conflicts, espouse tolerance, and make...

• Jun-2009
• / Literary
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Baba Yaga is an old hag who lives in a house built on chicken legs and kidnaps small children. She is one of the most pervasive and powerful creatures in all mythology. She appears in many forms: as Pupa, a tricksy, cantankerous old woman who keeps h...

• Sep-2011
• / General Fiction
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Finalist for the NBCC award for Criticism."Ugresic is sharp, funny and unafraid. . . . Orwell would approve." -- Times Literary SupplementOver the past three decades, Dubravka Ugresic has established herself as one of Europe"s greatest -- and most en...

• Apr-2018
• / Literary
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Fox is the story of literary footnotes and “minor” characters -- unnoticed people propelled into timelessness through the biographies and novels of others. With Ugresic’s characteristic wit, Fox takes us from Russia to Japan, through Balkan min...

• Apr-2024
• / General Fiction
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Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for LiteratureAs with the rest of her literary career, Dubravka Ugresic's final work, A Muzzle for Witches, is uncategorizable. On its surface, the book is an conversation with the literary critic Merima Ome...