Slađana Bukovac

Slađana Bukovac (born September 18, 1971 in Glina ) is a Croatian journalist and author .

Slađana Bukovac attended high school in Sarajevo and then began studying art history and comparative literature in Zagreb. She is a journalist in the cultural department of the Croatian Radio, she also writes art criticism and “ faction ” prose. Two months after September 11, 2001, she helped found a journal on Arabic literature in Paris.

In 2004 she took part in the literature project "Switch - Balkan Enter", in which authors from the Balkans and Scandinavia participated. Bukovac's novel “The Travelers” received the “Slavic” award from the Croatian Writers' Union for the best first book of 2003. The reason given by the poet Tonko Maroević , a member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts , states:

“The thematic dominant is undoubtedly love, the motivation of the relationships is serious and profound. The interweaving of different narrative strands creates interesting parallels and contrasts between cultures, especially those between the European north and south, their expression is refined and psychologically convincing, their style well-thought-out and free of any attempt to attract attention through empty effects. On the contrary, the controlled tension and the dense allusive language (full of successful associations and complex imaginary connections) give her work an exceptional position within contemporary Croatian literature. "

Works

• The travellings ones. From the Croatian. trans. by Hedi Blech-Vidulić. Kitab-Verlag , Klagenfurt / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-902005-69-6 .
• Nijedan pauk nije savršen. (Poems) AGM, Zagreb 2005, ISBN 953-174-253-7 .

literature

• Croatian Literature 2000-2003 Catalog (translated by Mario Suško ... [et al.]; Editors Branko Čegec, Vanda Mikšić). Centar za knjigu, Zagreb 2004, ISBN 953-99713-0-6 . (Bio-bibliographic notes about authors)

Web links

• Short biography at Kitab-Verlag