Daša Drndić

Daša Drndić

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Daša Drndić (1946-2018) was born in Zagreb. She studied English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Philology, Belgrade University.  With the aid of a Fulbright scholarship, she obtained a master’s degree from Southern Illinois University, and then studied at Case Western Reserve University. She worked as an editor in the publishing house Vuk Karadžić, an English teacher at the Djuro Salaj Centre for Education and an editor-dramaturgist for Radio-Television of Belgrade. She obtained her PhD from the University of Rijeka, where she taught contemporary British literature and creative writing. She published prose, literary criticism, reviews and translations in literary magazines and papers, as well as feature and documentary radio dramas. Her prose works include: Put do subote, 1982; Kamen s neba, 1984; Marija Częstohowska još uvijek roni suze ili Umiranje u Torontu, 1997; Canzone di guerra, 1998; Totenwnade, 2000Doppelgänger, 2002; Leica format, 2003; After Eight, 2005; Feministički rukopis ili politička parabola, 2006; Sonnenschein, 2007; April u Berlinu, 2009; Belladonna, 2012, and EEG, 2016.

Published by Partizanska knjiga: Umiranje u Torontu, Canzone di Guerra, April u Berlinu, Belladonna, EEG.

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