Slavenka Drakulić
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born
January 01, 1949
gender
female
place of birth
Rijeka, Croatia
genre
Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction
about this author
Slavenka Drakulić is a noted Croatian writer and publicist who currently lives in Sweden.
Slavenka Drakulić was born in Rijeka, Croatia, (in what was then socialist Yugoslavia). She graduated in comparative literature and sociology from the University in Zagreb in 1976. From 1982 to 1992 she was a staff writer for the Start bi-weekly newspaper and news weekly Danas (both in Zagreb), writing mainly on feminist issues.
Her noted recent works relate to the Yugoslav wars. As If I Am Not There is about crimes against women in the Bosnian War, while They Would Never Hurt a Fly is a book in which she also analyzed her experience overseeing the proceedings and the inmates of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugo...more
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How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed by Slavenka Drakulić avg rating 3.92 — 190 ratings — published 1992 4 editions |
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Cafe Europa: Life After Communism by Slavenka Drakulić avg rating 3.84 — 134 ratings — published 1996 4 editions |
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S.: A Novel about the Balkans by Slavenka Drakulić avg rating 4.09 — 97 ratings — published 2000 4 editions |
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They Would Never Hurt a Fly: War Criminals on Trial in The Hague by Slavenka Drakulić avg rating 3.84 — 49 ratings — published 1999 6 editions |
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Frida's Bed by Slavenka Drakulić avg rating 3.26 — 50 ratings — published 2008 3 editions |
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The Taste of a Man by Slavenka Drakulić avg rating 3.50 — 32 ratings — published 1997 6 editions |
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The Balkan Express: Fragments from the Other Side of War by Slavenka Drakulić avg rating 4.08 — 24 ratings — published 1992 5 editions |
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As If I Am Not There by Slavenka Drakulić avg rating 4.08 — 12 ratings — published 1999 9 editions |
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Marble Skin: A Novel by Slavenka Drakulić avg rating 3.33 — 9 ratings — published 1989 8 editions |
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Holograms of Fear by Slavenka Drakulić avg rating 4.40 — 5 ratings — published 1992 2 editions |
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"What do people think of when they talk about their lives? Do they really see them as an integral whole, as a chronological sequence of events; as something logical, purposeful, completed? What moments do they remember, and how do they remember them? As words? As a series of images and sounds? My life crumbles into a series of pictures, unconnected scenes which comes to mind only occassionally and at random. But there are key events, the acts of chance or fate, which later enable me to construct a logical whole of my life. One such moment was meeting Jose. The other was my decision to see our love through to the very end."
— Slavenka Drakulić
— Slavenka Drakulić
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