
Irena Vrkljan
The novel Svila, škare (in English “Silk, Scissors”) is an autobiographical account of the author’s childhood in Belgrade, her family’s move to Zagreb (in 1941, after the outbreak of war),…
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Irena Vrkljan
The novel Svila, škare (in English “Silk, Scissors”) is an autobiographical account of the author’s childhood in Belgrade, her family’s move to Zagreb (in 1941, after the outbreak of war),…
Max Frisch
The diary from the years 1966 to 1971 forms a link with the first diary, in which Max Frisch reported from Europe during the years from 1946 to 1949. The…
Snežana Bukal
Nina and Dora travel with their mother from the Netherlands to Croatia to spend the summer holidays with their aunt on a small Adriatic island. Their cousin Ivo, whose father…
Emir Imamović
Dino Lostić lives if not a good, but stable life, between home, the pub and the betting shop ‒ until Amer Trampo, amateur archaelogist and Dino’s cousin, returns from the…
Uwe Kolbe
A poetry collection of works by Uwe Kolbe. The selection was made from the volumes Hineingeboren (1982), Abschiede und andere Liebesgedichte (1983), Bornholm II (1985), Vaterlandkanal. Ein Fahrtenbuch (1990), Nicht…
Dino Pešut
After an unsuccessful attempt to make it in Berlin, a young writer returns to his Croatian homeland. There he earns a living as a hotel receptionist but is mainly concerned…
Melinda Nadj Abonji
Home of the Kocsis is now in Switzerland, but it is a difficult home, and it is in no way their native land – even though they run a cafeteria…
Arif Demolli
In the closed world of the village of Murrizaja in eastern Kosovo the dead live on an equal footing with the living. The childhood of the narrator in the 1950s…
Lindita Arapi
Alba is an angst-ridden woman in her late thirties. She is a social worker and lives with her husband, a computer scientist, in Vienna. Although she has managed to leave…
Daniel Bănulescu
Daniel Bǎnulescu’s novel Te pup în fund, conducător iubit! [I Kiss Your Ass, Beloved Leader!] tells of three groups during the fading Ceauşescu era. First, there is the group of…
Frank Wedekind
How many of Wedekind’s contemporaries would have thought that the author who so often outraged the public would go down in history as one of the great playwrights? Thanks to…
Ahmed Burić
In his monologue, war veteran Donald Meerbach jumps from anecdote to anecdote. Over mines, past snipers, right into a Parisian hospital. But Donald also tells of the happy postwar period:…