Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugresic
Thanks to Lauren Wein for sending me a galley of Dubravka Ugresic’s latest book, Baba Yaga Laid an Egg. (Which is translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac, Celia Hawkesworth, and Mark Thompson.) This was released in the UK not too long ago (and has been receiving some great reviews) and will be available here in the States ...
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Dubravka Ugresic's "Baba Yaga Laid an Egg"
This won’t be available in the States until next spring, but Dubravka Ugresic’s Baba Yaga Laid an Egg is already getting some great press in the UK, such as this piece in the London Review of Books by Marina Warner: Dubravka Ugrešić’s Baba Yaga Laid an Egg is the latest, most inventive and most ...
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Dubravka Ugresic nominated for Man Booker International Prize
Our own Dubravka Ugresic has made the “Judges’ List of Contenders” for the Man Booker International Prize! In case you were curious: The Man Booker International Prize…highlights one writer’s continued creativity, development and overall contribution to fiction on the world stage. This ...
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Bureaucratic Imagination on the Bolaño phenomenon
The Bureaucartic Imagination has an interesting post on the Bolaño hype in the States. It also touches on one of the ‘big problems’ of literature in translation: Moreover, his books are often about the mundane details of very specific and frankly petty literary disputes and details that must make little ...
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Bit of Love from Barnes & Noble
Not too terribly long ago, Barnes & Noble.com started Barnes & Noble Review a weekly web magazine featuring reviews of books, CDs, DVDs, etc. Pretty interesting strategy—rather than compete with Amazon on price, provide compelling editorial content. B&N has attracted a nice line of reviewers, including John Freeman ...
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Ellen Elias-Bursac on PRI's The World Books Podcast
In his latest World Books podcast, Bill Marx — who runs PRI’s The World’s very impressive World Books website — talks with translator Ellen Elias-Bursac, the translator of Dubravka Ugresic’s Nobody’s Home and several books by David Albahari, including the brillian Gotz and Meyer for which ...
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Dubravka on The World
Novelist and critic Dubravka Ugresic talks to World Books editor Bill Marx about her latest collection of essays, “Nobody’s Home,” which trains a wryly spiky eye to a number of subjects, from the plight of public intellectuals to the fluid nature of cultural identity in the age of ...
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