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Dubravka Ugrešić
Born
in Kutina (then Yugoslavia), CroatiaMarch 27,
Died
March 17,
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Genre
Contemporary
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Dubravka Ugrešić was a Yugoslav, Croatian and Dutch writer. She left Croatia in and was based in Amsterdam since She described herself as "post-Yugoslav, transnational, or, even more precisely, postnational writer".
Dubravka Ugrešić earned her degrees in Comparative Literature, Russian Language and Literature at the University of Zagreb, and worked for twenty years at the Institute for Theory of Literature at Zagreb University, successfully pursuing parallel careers as a writer and a literary scholar.
She started writing professionally with screenplays for children’s television programs, as an undergraduate. In she published her first book for children Mali plamen, which was awarded a prestigious Croatian literary prize for chDubravka Ugrešić was a Yugoslav, Croatian and Dutch writer. She left Croatia in and was based in Amsterdam
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Dubravka Ugre&#;i&#;
Dubravka Ugreši&#; earned her degrees in Comparative Literature, Russian Language and Literature at the University of Zagreb, and worked for twenty years at the Institute for Theory of Literature at Zagreb University, successfully pursuing parallel careers as a writer and a literary scholar.
She started writing professionally with screenplays for children’s television programs, as an undergraduate. In she published her first book for children Mali plamen, which was awarded a prestigious Croatian literary prize for children’s literature. Soon she gave up writing for children.
As a literary scholar Dubravka Ugreši&#; was particularly interested in Russian avant-garde culture. She is best known in the former Yugoslavia for her fiction, novels and short stories: Poza za prozu, ; Stefica Cvek u raljama zivota, ; Zivot je bajka, ; Forsiranje romana reke, Her novel Forsiranje romana reke was given the coveted NIN-award for the b
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To Dubravka Ugrešić, with Love
Jasmina Lukić remembers her friend, the writer Dubravka Ugrešić through her literary work and reminds us to “believe in the magic of literature”.
When the news about the death of Dubravka Ugrešić on 17 March reached me, I was in Prague, at a conference on displacement and women writers in Central Europe. In moments like this everything becomes symbolic: the place, the topic of the conference, the audience. I was in Prague, at the heart of Central Europe to which Ugrešić culturally belonged, at an event dealing with multiple identities, homelessness, and exile, encircled by people profoundly engaged with literature. As expected, at the conference we talked a lot about her work, and it was obvious that many people gathered there knew and loved her books. When the news reached us, it was a shared moment of shock, disbelief, and deep sadness. As we were informed, Dubravka Ugrešić had died in Amsterdam surrounded by family and friends. Ou