Dubravka Ugresic

Dubravka Ugresic is a writer born in former Yugoslavia (Croatia), presently based in Amsterdam. She writes novels, short stories and essays, and her books have been translated into many European languages. She has received several prestigious international literary awards, including the Charles Veillon European Essay for The Culture of Lies in 1996. Ugresic is also a literary scholar and occasionally teaches, mostly at the American Universities. English translations of Ugresic's work include:

The Ministry of Pain (London: Saqi Books. Forthcoming, 2005); Lend Me Your Character (USA: Dalkey Archive Press 2005); Thank You For Not Reading. USA: (Dalkey Archive Press, 2003); The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1998); The Culture of Lies. (London: Weindelfeld& Nicolson 1998); Have A Nice Day (London: Jonathan Cape 1994); In the Jaws of Life (London: Virago Press l992) and Fording the Stream of Consciousness (London: Virago Press l991).

''Ugresic is sharp, funny and unafraid in the face of the little dictators who have torn apart her former country. Orwell would approve.'' Times Literary Supplement.

''Ugresic has secured a space on the bookshelf reserved for classics of twentieth-century history ... Perhaps her greatest achievement is as a latter-day cultural archaeologist ... Her concern here is nothing less than the preservation of truth - the rescue of real time and authentic memory from the weight of nationalistic rhetoric and kitsch under which they have too often been buried in her country.'' Literary Review.

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