Christina E. Kramer

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Christina E. Kramer is professor emerita at the University of Toronto. She is the author of numerous books on Macedonian language and the Balkans and a translator of Macedonian literature: Freud’s Sister, by Goce Smilevski; My Father’s Books, The Time of the Goats, and The Path of the Eels, by Luan Starova; and A Spare Life, by Lidija Dimkovksa.

When I Left “Karl Liebknecht” (an excerpt)

By Lidija Dimkovska

Autumn 2020
Lidija Dimkovska

In the Karl Liebknecht House in Leipzig, Germany, thirty people of various nationalities are seated around an improvised table on the stage in the Events Hall, interpreters behind them, some with...
Grandma, Non-Oui (an excerpt)

May 8, 2018 | Lidija Dimkovska

Non-Oui is a biographical novel that tells the story of a woman from Split, Croatia. In her youth, Grandma Nedjeljka, or Non-Oui, as she was called (a literal French translation of the syllables...
A Spare Life by Lidija Dimkovska

By Lidija Dimkovska

November 2016
Lidija Dimkovska

San Francisco. Two Lines Press. 2016. 532 pages. Zlata, a Siamese twin conjoined at the head to her sister, Srebra, is the unlikely protagonist of Macedonian writer Lidija Dimkovska’s remarkable novel...