Luka Bekavac

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Luka Bekavac (born September 25, 1976) is a Croatian writer, university professor and translator. He was born in the city of Osijek. His novels Drenje (2011) and Viljevo (2013) have received critical acclaim.[citation needed] Viljevo won the Janko Polić Kamov Award in 2014,[citation needed] and the EU Prize for Literature in 2015. As a translator, Bekavac has translated works by Martin Amis, Jonathan Franzen, Alberto Toscano, Naomi Klein and Aleksandar Hemon among others.[citation needed]

Bekavac teaches literature at Zagreb University, and contributes regularly to media outlets and scholarly publications.[1]

Bekavac is member of the electro acoustic music project Jeanne Frémaux with Toma Bačić.[2]

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  1. ^ "Luka Bekavac - EU Prize for Literature". EU Prize for Literature.
  2. ^ "Jeanne Frémaux".