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Slavenka Drakulić is a Croatian novelist and journalist whose books have been translated into many languages. She was born in 1949 in Rijeka. She studied Comparative Literature and Sociology at the University of Zagreb. From 1982 to 1992 she worked for the periodical Start and for the weekly Danas. She publishes texts in many foreign newspapers and periodicals and regularly contributes articles to the newspapers Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany), Internazionale (Italy), Information (Denmark), Dagens Nyheter (Sweden), and occasionally to many other European newspapers. She works as editor for the US political periodical The Nation.
She has published the following novels in Croatian: Hologrami straha (Holograms of Fear), Mramorna koža (Marble Skin), Božanska glad (The Taste of Man), Kao da me nema (As If I Am Not There)and Frida ili o boli (Frida’s Bed). She has also published four non-fiction works: Smrtni grijesi feminizma (The Mortal Sins of Feminism), Kako smo preživjeli (How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed), Oni ne bi ni mrava zgazili (They Would Never Hurt a Fly: War Criminals on Trial in the Hague) and Tijelo njenog tijela (Flesh of her Flesh). Profil has published her Collected Works as a two-tome edition. She lives in Croatia and in Sweden.
WRITERS
Tales written by:
- Slobodan Novak
- Mirko Kovač
- Predrag Matvejević
- Luko Paljetak
- Joško Božanić
- Jakša Fiamengo
- Daša Drndić
- Vesna Parun
- Slavenka Drakulić
- Giacomo Scotti
- Arsen Dedić
- Miroslav Radman
- Senko Karuza
- Radovan Marčić
- Anica Kisić
- Damir Miloš
- Javor Novak
- Ranko Marinković
- Stipe Nobilo
- Miroslav Mićanović