Sunday 21 June at 12.00 p.m.
\nVenue: Stevenson Room, British Museum, London, UK<\/p>\n
An award-winning novelist and essayist, Dubravka Ugresic reflects on femininity, ageing, identity, secrets and love. These are the themes of her new novel, Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, a modern reworking of a traditional myth, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursa\u0107, Celia Hawkesworth and Mark Thompson. She will be in conversation with Lisa Appignanesi, currently the President of English PEN<\/span>, and author of Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present. Susan Sontag described Ugresic as \u2018a writer to follow, a writer to be cherished\u2019; Marina Warner has said that she has \u2018a unique tone of voice, a madcap wit and a lively sense of the absurd\u2019. Born in former Yugoslavia, she currently lives in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n Dubravka Ugresic was born in 1949 in Croatia. She 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 as an undergraduate, authoring screenplays for children\u2019s television programs. In 1971 she published her first book for children, which was awarded a prestigious Croatian literary prize for children’s literature. Since then, she has won a host of awards, including the PEN<\/span> Writers in Translation Award in 2006.<\/p>\n Lisa Appignanesi was born in Poland and now lives in London. She became Deputy President of English PEN<\/span> in 2004 and led its highly successful \u2018Free Expression is No Offence\u2019 campaign. She became President in 2008. She has published numerous works of fiction and non-fiction; her latest, Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800, has been shortlisted for various prizes.<\/p>\n Part of the London Review Bookshop\u2019s World Literature Weekend<\/p>\n Ticket prices include postage. Concessionary rates available for LRB<\/span> subscribers, Friends of the British Museum, students and OAP<\/span>s \u2013 please call +44 (0)20 7209 1141<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sunday 21 June at 12.00 p.m. Venue: Stevenson Room, British Museum, London, UK An award-winning novelist and essayist, Dubravka Ugresic reflects on femininity, ageing, identity, secrets and love. These are the themes of her new novel, Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, a modern reworking of a traditional myth, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursa\u0107, Celia Hawkesworth and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1646],"class_list":["post-271846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323646,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271846\/revisions\/323646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}