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Istros Books
Istros books is a London-based independent publisher of writers from South-East Europe and the Balkans, in English translation. It was set up in 2011 by Susan Curtis. Publications Notable publications include: *''Doppelgänger'' by Daša Drndić (Croatia), translated by Celia Hawkesworth & S.D. Curtis, 2018. Shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize (2019). *'' Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent'' (2016) and '' Gaudeamus'' (2018) by Mircea Eliade (Romania), translated by Christopher Moncrieff and Christopher Bartholomew. *''Exile'' by Çiler İlhan (Turkey), translated by Aysegul Tososer Artes, winner of the European Prize for Literature, 2011. *''The Son'' by Andrej Nikolaidis (Montenegro), translated by Will Firth, 2013. The original work was a winner of the European Prize for Literature, 2011. *''Life Begins on Friday'' by Ioana Pârvulescu (Romania), translated by Alistair Ian Blythe, with an afterword by Mircea Cărtărescu, winner of the European Prize for Lite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daša Drndić
Daša Drndić (10 August 1946 – 5 June 2018) was a Croatian writer. She studied English language and literature at the University of Belgrade.Profile , fraktura.hr; accessed 6 June 2018. Life and career Drndić was born in , in 1947 into a middle-class family. Her father, a former , was a diplomat working in , |
Julio Llamazares
Julio Llamazares (born March 28, 1955) is a Spanish author born in Boñar, Vegamián, León Province. Biography Julio Llamazares is a poet, novelist and a prolific essayist and journalist. He focuses on themes such as the history and memory of Spanish society, both individual and collective and, in particular, the progressive decline of the rural cultural heritage. His work encompasses multiple genres, including 6 novels as well as various collections of poems, short stories and essays, travel writing, screenplays and journalism. He has had a regular column in El País since the early 1980s and has been featured on radio and TV. His first works were two collections of poetry: ''La lentitud de los bueyes'', first published in 1979 and ''La memoria de la nieve'', published in 1982. His first novel, ''Luna de lobos'', was published in 1985 and made into a film in 1987, directed by :es:Julio Sánchez Valdés, Julio Sánchez Valdés, with a cast including Santiago Ramos, Antonio Res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marinko Koščec
Marinko Koščec (born 1967 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia) is a Croatian writer. Life and Work Koščec studied English and French language and literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Zagreb, graduated with diploma-thesis on ''Man in search of his double - the world seen through the work of J. M. G. Le Clézio'' (L'Homme en quête de son double – le monde vu à travers l’oeuvre de J. M. G. Le Clézio, 1992), then he continued his studies at the Ohio State University (1989) and the Institut Catholique de Paris (1990), obtained his magister degree with thesis on ''Figuration of the unsaid in the contemporary novel'' (Figuration du non-dit dans le roman contemporaine, 1995) at Diderot University Paris, and completed as PhD with thesis on ''Poetry of Michel Houellebecq. Narrative, stylistic and contextual study of opus'' (Poetika Michela Houellebecqa. Naratološka, stilistička i kontekstualna studija opusa, 2005) in Zagreb. Koščec is assistant professor of French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evald Flisar
Evald Flisar (born 13 February 1945) is a Slovene writer, poet, playwright, editor and translator. He was president of the Slovene Writers' Association for three consecutive terms between 1995 and 2002 and is editor-in-chief of the literary and cultural magazine Sodobnost. Biography Flisar was born in 1945 in Gerlinci in the Prekmurje region of eastern Slovenia. He attended secondary school in Murska Sobota and studied comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana, English and English literature at Chiswick Polytechnic in London and for a while in Australia. Many of his books are travelogues and he is also an acclaimed playwright. He received the Prešeren Foundation Award in 1993 for his travelogue ''Popotnik v kraljestvu senc'' and his plays ''Kaj pa Leonardo?'' and ''Jutri bo lepše''. Published works Poetry * ''Symphonia poetica'' (1966) Prose * ''Mrgolenje prahu'' (1968, novel) * ''Umiranje v ogledalu'' (1969, novel) * ''Tisoč in ena pot'' (1979, travel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayfer Tunç
Ayfer Tunç (born 1964 in Adapazarı) is a contemporary Turkish writer. She graduated from the Istanbul University Faculty of Political Sciences. During her university years, she wrote many articles for various literature, culture and art magazines. In 1989, she participated in the Yunus Nadi Short Story Competition organized by the daily Cumhuriyet newspaper. Her short story titled Saklı (Hidden) received the first prize. Between 1999-2004, she worked as the chief editor of Yapı Kredi Publishing House. Her book titled Maniniz Yoksa Annemler Size Gelecek-70’li Yıllarda Hayatımız (My Parents Will Visit You If You Aren’t Occupied - Our Life in the '70s) was published in 2001 was met with great enthusiasm. In 2003, the same book won the International Balkanika Award, co-organized by seven Balkan countries, and qualified for being translated into six Balkan languages. In addition, the book was published in Arabic in Syria and Lebanon. Ayfer Tunç also wrote a script titled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Octavian Paler
Octavian Paler ( or ; July 2, 1926 – May 7, 2007) was a Romanian writer, journalist, politician in Communist Romania, and civil society activist in post-1989 Romania. Biography Octavian Paler was born in Lisa, Brașov County. He was educated at Spiru Haret High School in Bucharest. In the summer of 1944, just one week before graduating the 7th grade, he was forced to leave the school because of an argument with his uncle and Spiru Haret's school head master – George Șerban. Octavian Paler moved on to Radu Negru High School in Făgăraș, where he studied literature for his final examination. He graduated in 1945 with magna cum laude and outstanding results in philosophy, Latin and Greek. He sat the final examination in Sibiu in the same year. Octavian Paler went on to study Philosophy and Law at the University of Bucharest. He died of a heart attack on May 7, 2007 at the age of 80. He was buried with military honours in the Sfânta Vineri Cemetery in Bucharest. ''Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marija Knežević
Marija Knežević (born 29 December 1963) is a Serbian poet, fiction writer, essayist, literary translator and Professor of literature. Knežević was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1963. She graduated from Belgrade University with a degree in Comparative Literature and Theory of Literature. She later completed her M.A. degree at Michigan State University where she also taught from 1996 to 2000. She wrote a column for the ''Politika'' newspaper. Selected bibliography Poetry Her poetry includes: * ''Elegiac Advice to Julia'', BIGZ; Belgrade. (1994) * ''Things for Personal Use'', Prosveta; Belgrade. (1994) * ''The Age of Salome'', Prosveta; Belgrade. (1996) * ''My Other You'', Vajat; Belgrade. (2001) Prose Her collection of proses include: * ''Dog Food'', novel published by Matica srpska, Novi Sad (1989) * ''Querida'', e-mail correspondence with Anika Krstić from Belgrade during bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999. Vajat; Belgrade (2001) * ''The Book of Longing'', Slobodna izda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alek Popov
Alek Popov ( bg, Алек Попов) is a Bulgarian novelist, short story writer, essayist and scriptwriter, author of the novel ''Mission London''. Alek Popov was born in Sofia in 1966.Popov, Alek. Biography . Contemporary Bulgarian Writers. He studied in the elite classical gymnasium in Sofia and later received M.A. in from the . He is an author of two novels. His first novel, ''Mission London'', was translated to 12 languages and later the film based on the book was a gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek (, ; ; born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, visiting professor at New York University and a senior researcher at the University of Ljubljana's Department of Philosophy. He primarily works on continental philosophy (particularly Hegelianism, psychoanalysis and Marxism) and political theory, as well as film criticism and theology. Žižek is the most famous associate of the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis, a group of Slovenian academics working on German Idealism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, ideology critique, and media criticism. His breakthrough work was 1989's ''The Sublime Object of Ideology'', his first book in English, which was decisive in the introduction of the Ljubljana School's thought to English-speaking audiences. He has written over 50 books in multiple languages. The idiosyncratic style of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Srećko Horvat
Srećko Horvat (born 28 February 1983) is a Croatian philosopher, author and political activist. The German weekly ''Der Freitag'' called him "one of the most exciting voices of his generation" and he has been described as a "fiery voice of dissent in the Post-Yugoslav landscape". His writing has appeared in ''The Guardian'', Al Jazeera, ''Der Spiegel'', ''Jacobin (magazine), Jacobin'', ''Newsweek'' and ''The New York Times''. Life Horvat was born in Osijek, Croatia but lived for the first eight years of his life in Germany before returning to Croatia in 1991. After returning to Croatia, he was involved in the Hardcore punk, hardcore punk scene of the 1990s, graduated philosophy and general linguistics at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, started writing for Croatian magazines such as ''Zarez'' and, prior to his twenty-sixth birthday, published two books, ''Protiv političke korektnosti'' (''Against Political Correctness'') and ''Znakovi postmodernog grada'' (''Signs of the Post ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goran Vojnović
Goran Vojnović (born 11 June 1980) is a Slovenian writer, poet, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his 2008 novel ''Southern Scum Go Home'' ( sl, Čefurji raus!) which won him numerous awards as well as a lawsuit filed by the Slovenian Police that was withdrawn a day later after media attention and public outrage at police filing charges for a work of fiction brought embarrassment to the Slovenian Ministry of Interior. Vojnović was born in Ljubljana to a family of mixed Bosnian and Jewish descent. He studied at the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television. He published his first collection of poetry ''Lep je ta svet'' in 1998. His novel ''Čefurji raus!'' started out as an unfinished film script. It describes life of immigrant youth in the Fužine estate in Ljubljana, their everyday problems and cultural differences between locals and immigrants from the former Yugoslavia. For it he won the Prešeren Foundation Award and the Kresnik Award in 2009. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ognjen Spahić
Ognjen Spahić (born 1977 in Podgorica, Montenegro), is a Montenegrin novelist. Spahić has published two collections of short stories: ''Sve to'' (All That, 2001) and ''Zimska potraga'' (Winter Search, 2007). His novel ''Hansenova djeca'' (Hansen's Children, 2004) won him the 2005 Meša Selimović Prize for the best new novel from Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina. To date, ''Hansenova djeca'' has been published in French, Italian, Slovenian, Romanian, Hungarian, Macedonian and English by the UK publisheIstros Books His short story “Raymond is No Longer with Us—Carver is Dead” was included in the anthology Best European Fiction 2011 published by Dalkey Archive Press in the USA. In 2007, he was a writing resident at the University of Iowa's International Writing Program. In 2011, he was the recipient of Romania's Ovid Festival Prize, awarded to a prominent young talent. Awards and honours *2014 European Union Prize for Literature The European Union Prize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
