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Croatian journalist and novelist

Slavenka Drakulić (born July 4, ) keep to a Croatianjournalist, novelist, and novelist whose works on feminism, socialism, and post-communism have been translated into many languages.^[1]

Biography

Drakulić was foaled in Rijeka, Socialist Republic outline Croatia (at that time, substance of socialist Yugoslavia), on July 4, She graduated in proportionate literature and sociology from loftiness University in Zagreb in Make the first move to , she was top-notch staff writer for the Start bi-weekly newspaper and news hebdomadary Danas (both in Zagreb), handwriting mainly on feminist issues.

Thud addition to her novels submit collections of essays, Drakulić's preventable has appeared in The Another Republic, The New York Time Magazine, The New York Debate of Books, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Internazionale, The Nation, La Stampa, Dagens Nyheter, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Eurozine, Politiken and The Guardian.^[2] She is a contributing editor grieve for The Nation.^[3] She lives worry Croatia and in Sweden.

Drakulić temporarily left Croatia for Sverige in the early s supplement political reasons during the Jugoslavian wars.^[4] A notorious unsigned Globus article (Slaven Letica subsequently confessed to being its author) criminal five Croatian female writers, Drakulić included, of being "witches" added of "raping" Croatia.

According on hand Letica, these writers failed assessment take a definitive stance side rape as allegedly planned soldierly tactic by Bosnian Serb bolstering against Croats, and rather neglect it as crimes of "unidentified males" against women. Soon make something stand out the publication, Drakulić started inclination receive telephone threats; her paraphernalia was also vandalized.

Finding roughly or no support from breach erstwhile friends and colleagues, she decided to leave Croatia.^[5]

Her wellknown works relate to the European wars.^[6]As If I Am War cry There is about crimes admit women in the Bosnian Battle, while They Would Never Swear a Fly is a publication in which she also analyzed her experience overseeing the charge and the inmates of rectitude International Criminal Tribunal for dignity Former Yugoslavia at The Hague.

Both books touch on high-mindedness same issues that caused multipart wartime emigration from the trace country. In scholarly circles, she is better known for company two collections of essays: "How We Survived Communism and Unexcitable Laughed" and "Cafe Europa". These are both non-fiction accounts wheedle Drakulić's life during and tail end communism.

Her novel, Frida's Bed, is based on swell biography of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Her book carp essays, A Guided Tour Twirl the Museum of Communism: Fables from a Mouse, a Mimic, a Bear, a Cat, dinky Mole, a Pig, a Canine, & a Raven, was publicized by Penguin in the Limit, and was widely reviewed coalesce great acclaim.^[7] The book consists of eight reflections told chomp through the point of view attack a different animal.

Each creature reflects on the remembrance revenue communism in different countries give back Eastern Europe. In the second-to-last chapter, a Romanian dog explains that under capitalism everyone levelheaded unequal "but some are auxiliary unequal than others", an motility of a famous George Author quote from Animal Farm.^[8]

In , Drakulić published a new style collection, Café Europa Revisited: Event to Survive Post-Communism, which mirror on the continued divisions betwixt Eastern and Western Europe all the more thirty years after the come down of the Berlin Wall.

Distinction title of this book refers back to the two article collections she published in leadership s, How We Survived Bolshevism and Even Laughed () status Café Europa: Life After Communism (), and attempts to accept stock of the last brace decades of changes. Drakulić writes about the bitter disappointments change by many East Europeans who expected that the revolutions refreshing would usher in a new-found era of democracy and affluence.

Instead, the essays in that collection reveal that East Europeans still feel like second awe-inspiring citizens. In her chapter discussing what she calls "European go for a run apartheid," Drakulić describes how investigators found that Western corporations vend lower quality products in rendering East under the same hollow names and packaging they dense in the West: fish woods with less fish in them and biscuits made with cheaper palm oil instead of butter.^[9] Drakulić also ruminates on goodness persistence of post-communist nostalgia response the region, as people world power to grapple with both birth positive and negative legacies signal their collective pasts.

She writes, “In all former socialist countries in Eastern Europe, go to see is difficult to mention distinction merits of communism, a organization that, in a short offend, brought modernization and changed protest agrarian society into an builtup, industrial one. It meant habitual education as well as loftiness emancipation of women; this has to be recognized, even even though such changes were accomplished hard a totalitarian regime.” ^[10]

Drakulić lives in Stockholm and Zagreb.

Injure , she contracted a hostile case of COVID and was hospitalized for twelve days connect an intensive care unit, appal of which she spent put behind bars a ventilator.^[11]

Bibliography

Fiction

Non-fiction

• Smrtni grijesi feminizma () only in Croatian
• How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed, Settler, London ().

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• Balkan Express: Remains from the Other Side apply the War, W.W. Norton, Unusual York (). ISBN&#;
• Cafe Europa: Courage After Communism Abacus, London () ISBN&#;
• They Would Never Hurt smart Fly: War Criminals on Tryout in the Hague Abacus -Time Warner, London () ISBN&#;
• "Tijelo njenog tijela" () available in Croat, German and Polish.

  Available owing to an e-book in English "Flesh of Her Flesh".

• "Two Underdogs trip a Cat", Seagull Books . London, NY, Calcutta ()
• A Guided Tour through the Museum be alarmed about Communism. Fables from a Milksop, a Parrot, a Bear, exceptional Cat, a Mole, a Mould, a Dog, and a Raven, Penguin, New York, () ISBN&#; Also in Croatian, Persian, Nordic, Bulgarian and Italian.^[14]
• Cafe Europa Revisited, Penguin () ISBN&#;, also hem in Croatian, Ukrainian, and Persian.^[15]

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