Dubravka Ugrešić

Photo by Shevaun Williams

Dubravka Ugrešić is a European writer, author of several novels and volumes of essays that have been translated into over twenty languages. Recipient of several prestigious literary awards, including the 2016 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Ugrešić was born and raised in the former Yugoslavia, then in Croatia, and now lives in the Netherlands.

May 2018

Fox by Dubravka Ugrešić

Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2018. 308 pages. Neustadt Prize winner Dubravka Ugrešić’s latest historiographic metafiction bears her trademark erudition, wit, and nuanced cultural critiques. The f...
Photo by Shevuan Williams. “I know of no other writer who has been so adept at translating an experience of war and exile to the observation of the foibles and shortcomings of humankind, to leave...
January 2017

A Girl in Litland: The 2016 Neustadt Prize Lecture

Dubravka Ugrešić delivered her 2016 Neustadt keynote lecture to hundreds of high school and college students in Norman, Oklahoma. After watching the world premiere of the staged adaptati...
September 2016

The Scold’s Bridle

Made of iron, this scold’s bridle from Belgium dates from the 16th or 17th century. The strut of metal that went into the wearer’s mouth to hold down her tongue has broken off. If there’...
March 2014

Europe in Sepia by Dubravka Ugresic

David Williams, tr. Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2014. ISBN 9781934824894 Since leaving Croatia in 1994, Dubravka Ugresic has penned sharp, darkly funny critiques of contemporary Western and glob...