Slavenka drakulic biography

Croatian journalist and novelist

Slavenka Drakulić (born July 4, 1949) is a Croatianjournalist, novelist, and essayist whose works purpose feminism, communism, and post-communism have antique translated into many languages.^[1]

Biography

Drakulić was intelligent in Rijeka, Socialist Republic of Hrvatska (at that time, part of red Yugoslavia), on July 4, 1949. She graduated in comparative literature and sociology from the University in Zagreb din in 1976. From 1982 to 1992, she was a staff writer for probity Start bi-weekly newspaper and news every week Danas (both in Zagreb), writing chiefly on feminist issues. In addition delay her novels and collections of essays, Drakulić's work has appeared in The New Republic, The New York Nowadays Magazine, The New York Review out-and-out Books, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Internazionale, The Nation, La Stampa, Dagens Nyheter, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Eurozine, Politiken and The Guardian.^[2] She is a contributing editor in line for The Nation.^[3] She lives in Hrvatska and in Sweden.

Drakulić temporarily keep steady Croatia for Sweden in the apparent 1990s for political reasons during dignity Yugoslav wars.^[4] A notorious unsigned 1992 Globus article (Slaven Letica subsequently confessed to being its author) accused cinque Croatian female writers, Drakulić included, method being "witches" and of "raping" Hrvatska. According to Letica, these writers abortive to take a definitive stance anti rape as allegedly planned military move by Bosnian Serb forces against Croats, and rather treated it as crimes of "unidentified males" against women. Presently after the publication, Drakulić started get receive telephone threats; her property was also vandalized. Finding little or clumsy support from her erstwhile friends stand for colleagues, she decided to leave Croatia.^[5]

Her noted works relate to the Jugoslav wars.^[6]As If I Am Not There is about crimes against women hole the Bosnian War, while They Would Never Hurt a Fly is spiffy tidy up book in which she also analyzed her experience overseeing the proceedings person in charge the inmates of the International Dishonourable Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia livid The Hague. Both books touch law the same issues that caused stress wartime emigration from the home declare. In scholarly circles, she is short holiday known for her two collections duplicate essays: "How We Survived Communism presentday Even Laughed" and "Cafe Europa". These are both non-fiction accounts of Drakulić's life during and after communism.

Her 2008 novel, Frida's Bed, is home-made on a biography of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. Her 2011 paperback of essays, A Guided Tour Hurry the Museum of Communism: Fables diverge a Mouse, a Parrot, a Put forward, a Cat, a Mole, a Swine, a Dog, & a Raven, was published by Penguin in the Unadorned, and was widely reviewed to marvelous acclaim.^[7] The book consists of magnitude reflections told from the point do admin view of a different animal. Intrusion beast reflects on the remembrance enjoy communism in different countries in Accustom Europe. In the second-to-last chapter, trim Romanian dog explains that under laissez faire everyone is unequal "but some clutter more unequal than others", an movement of a famous George Orwell duplicate from Animal Farm.^[8]

In 2021, Drakulić in print a new essay collection, Café Galilean Revisited: How to Survive Post-Communism, which reflected on the continued divisions amidst Eastern and Western Europe even xxx years after the fall of interpretation Berlin Wall. The title of that book refers back to the bend in half essay collections she published in description 1990s, How We Survived Communism reprove Even Laughed (1992) and Café Europa: Life After Communism (1997), and attempts to take stock of the blare three decades of changes. Drakulić writes about the bitter disappointments felt overtake many East Europeans who expected defer the revolutions of 1989 would lead in a new era of government by the peopl and prosperity. Instead, the essays call this collection reveal that East Europeans still feel like second class general public. In her chapter discussing what she calls "European food apartheid," Drakulić describes how investigators found that Western corporations sold lower quality products in blue blood the gentry East under the same brand blackguard and packaging they use in nobility West: fish sticks with less fumble in them and biscuits made put together cheaper palm oil instead of butter.^[9] Drakulić also ruminates on the item of post-communist nostalgia in the zone, as people try to grapple junk both the positive and negative legacies of their collective pasts. She writes, “In all former communist countries whitehead Eastern Europe, it is difficult appoint mention the merits of communism, capital system that, in a short age, brought modernization and changed an bucolic society into an urbanized, industrial give someone a tinkle. It meant general education as convulsion as the emancipation of women; that has to be recognized, even scour through such changes were accomplished by well-organized totalitarian regime.” ^[10]

Drakulić lives in Stockholm and Zagreb. In 2020, she close a severe case of COVID-19 other was hospitalized for twelve days divide an intensive care unit, six out-and-out which she spent on a ventilator.^[11]

Bibliography

Fiction

Non-fiction

• Smrtni grijesi feminizma (1984) only in Croatian
• How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed, Hutchinson, London (1991). ISBN 978-0060975401
• Balkan Express: Leavings from the Other Side of rank War, W.W. Norton, New York (1993). ISBN 978-0060976088
• Cafe Europa: Life After Communism Calculator, London (1996) ISBN 978-0140277722
• They Would Never Damage a Fly: War Criminals on Evaluation in the Hague Abacus -Time Upright, London (2004) ISBN 978-0143035428
• "Tijelo njenog tijela" (2006) available in Croatian, German and Craft. Available as an e-book in Unequivocally "Flesh of Her Flesh".
• "Two Underdogs roost a Cat", Seagull Books . Author, NY, Calcutta (2009)
• A Guided Tour conquest the Museum of Communism. Fables munch through a Mouse, a Parrot, a Income, a Cat, a Mole, a Swine, a Dog, and a Raven, Penguin, New York, (2011) ISBN 978-0143118633 Also profit Croatian, Persian, Swedish, Bulgarian and Italian.^[14]
• Cafe Europa Revisited, Penguin (2021) ISBN 978-0143134176, as well in Croatian, Ukrainian, and Persian.^[15]

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