Dubravka nominated for Prix Femina Romans étrangers
I know we’re a bit late on this, but our own Dubravka Ugresic has been nominated for the Prix Femina Romans étranger for The Ministry of Pain. They announce the winner on Monday, so keep your fingers crossed. ...
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More Nobody's Home Reviews
As Dubravka Ugresic’s reading tour winds down—her final event is a conversation with Brigid Hughes on Tuesday at 7pm at Melville House Press—her review coverage continues to expand. Most recently Booklit gave the book a long, thoughtful, positive review, my favorite part of which is the ...
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Ellen Elias-Bursac on Nobody's Home
The always amazing CALQUE is starting to post a series of translator’s introductions on their website, with one of the first being a piece by Ellen Elias-Bursac on Dubravka Ugresic’s Nobody’s Home. In her work published before the outbreak of war in 1991, three collections of short stories and a ...
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Dubravka in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
In advance of Dubravka’s reading on Friday at Novella Bookstore, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran this interview. Q: Are Americans reading enough foreign literature in translation? A: I inspired Open Letter Books (the American publisher of Nobody’s Home) to print a new translation of an old Russian ...
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Dubravka Ugresic on the Internets
Over the past week or so, Dubravka’s book (Nobody’s Home) has been making its way around the internet, garnering some really nice praise along the way. First off, it received a great review (4 out of 5) by Gwen Dawson at the always excellent Literary License. And then yesterday, Douglas Rushkoff (whose ...
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Dubravka and Breyten on Leonard Lopate Show
Here’s the half-hour discussion with Dubravka Ugresic and Breyten Breytenbach that we mentioned
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Dubravka & Chad on WHAM
In what is a first for us, our lovely UR publicist June Avignone convinced a local morning news show to do a segment on Dubravka’s new book, Nobody’s Home, and Open Letter. I must admit I was expecting out and out absurdity—and there was some of that: their segment was preceded by a piece on a new kind ...
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