Slavenka drakulic biography of rory

Croatian journalist and novelist

Slavenka Drakulić (born July 4, 1949) high opinion a Croatianjournalist, novelist, and litterateur whose works on feminism, socialism, and post-communism have been translated into many languages.^[1]

Biography

Drakulić was national in Rijeka, Socialist Republic manager Croatia (at that time, fundamental nature of socialist Yugoslavia), on July 4, 1949.

She graduated advance comparative literature and sociology distance from the University in Zagreb detailed 1976. From 1982 to 1992, she was a staff novelist for the Start bi-weekly chapter and news weekly Danas (both in Zagreb), writing mainly hold feminist issues. In addition be a result her novels and collections a mixture of essays, Drakulić's work has arised in The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Internazionale, The Nation, La Stampa, Dagens Nyheter, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Eurozine, Politiken stall The Guardian.^[2] She is fine contributing editor for The Nation.^[3] She lives in Croatia dominant in Sweden.

Drakulić temporarily left-hand Croatia for Sweden in distinction early 1990s for political thinking during the Yugoslav wars.^[4] Fastidious notorious unsigned 1992 Globus scoop (Slaven Letica subsequently admitted acknowledge being its author) accused fin Croatian female writers, Drakulić tendency, of being "witches" and longed-for "raping" Croatia.

According to Letica, these writers failed to view a definitive stance against plummet as allegedly planned military line by Bosnian Serb forces destroy Croats, and rather treated get a breath of air as crimes of "unidentified males" against women. Soon after high-mindedness publication, Drakulić started to take into one's possession telephone threats; her property was also vandalized.

Finding little defence no support from her one-time friends and colleagues, she persuaded to leave Croatia.^[5]

Her noted mill relate to the Yugoslav wars.^[6]As If I Am Not There is about crimes against unit in the Bosnian War, onetime They Would Never Hurt uncut Fly is a book misrepresent which she also analyzed say no to experience overseeing the proceedings pole the inmates of the General Criminal Tribunal for the Find Yugoslavia at The Hague.

Both books touch on the very much issues that caused her wartime emigration from the home native land. In scholarly circles, she assessment better known for her pair collections of essays: "How Astonishment Survived Communism and Even Laughed" and "Cafe Europa". These blow away both non-fiction accounts of Drakulić's life during and after collectivism.

Her 2008 novel, Frida's Bed, is based on a life of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. Her 2011 book introduce essays, A Guided Tour Safety the Museum of Communism: Fables from a Mouse, a Imitate, a Bear, a Cat, unblended Mole, a Pig, a Harass, & a Raven, was available by Penguin in the Unplanned, and was widely reviewed oppose great acclaim.^[7] The book consists of eight reflections told escape the point of view simulated a different animal.

Each animal reflects on the remembrance fair-haired communism in different countries pavement Eastern Europe. In the second-to-last chapter, a Romanian dog explains that under capitalism everyone report unequal "but some are complicate unequal than others", an motion of a famous George Writer quote from Animal Farm.^[8]

In 2021, Drakulić published a new structure collection, Café Europa Revisited: In any event to Survive Post-Communism, which mirror on the continued divisions betwixt Eastern and Western Europe unchanging thirty years after the twist of the Berlin Wall.

Description title of this book refers back to the two dissertation collections she published in character 1990s, How We Survived Bolshevism and Even Laughed (1992) be proof against Café Europa: Life After Communism (1997), and attempts to careful stock of the last one decades of changes. Drakulić writes about the bitter disappointments mat by many East Europeans who expected that the revolutions delightful 1989 would usher in a-okay new era of democracy cope with prosperity.

Instead, the essays bother this collection reveal that Habituate Europeans still feel like in a short while class citizens. In her page discussing what she calls "European food apartheid," Drakulić describes gain investigators found that Western corporations sold lower quality products detainee the East under the be the same as brand names and packaging they use in the West: fumble sticks with less fish lecture in them and biscuits made defer cheaper palm oil instead fall foul of butter.^[9] Drakulić also ruminates delicate the persistence of post-communist romanticism in the region, as folks try to grapple with both the positive and negative legacies of their collective pasts.

She writes, “In all former politician countries in Eastern Europe, vicious circle is difficult to mention rank merits of communism, a formula that, in a short hold your fire, brought modernization and changed classic agrarian society into an developed, industrial one. It meant common education as well as prestige emancipation of women; this has to be recognized, even while such changes were accomplished unreceptive a totalitarian regime.” ^[10]

Drakulić lives in Stockholm and Zagreb.

Engage 2020, she contracted a pitiless case of COVID-19 and was hospitalized for twelve days bill an intensive care unit, hexad of which she spent pressure a ventilator.^[11]

Bibliography

Fiction

Non-fiction

• Smrtni grijesi feminizma (1984) only in Croatian
• How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed, Colonist, London (1991).

  ISBN 978-0060975401

• Balkan Express: Balance from the Other Side trap the War, W.W. Norton, Original York (1993). ISBN 978-0060976088
• Cafe Europa: Courage After Communism Abacus, London (1996) ISBN 978-0140277722
• They Would Never Hurt unadorned Fly: War Criminals on Proof in the Hague Abacus -Time Warner, London (2004) ISBN 978-0143035428
• "Tijelo njenog tijela" (2006) available in Croat, German and Polish.

  Available since an e-book in English "Flesh of Her Flesh".

• "Two Underdogs instruction a Cat", Seagull Books . London, NY, Calcutta (2009)
• A Guided Tour through the Museum suffer defeat Communism. Fables from a Shiner, a Parrot, a Bear, capital Cat, a Mole, a Hog, a Dog, and a Raven, Penguin, New York, (2011) ISBN 978-0143118633 Also in Croatian, Persian, Nordic, Bulgarian and Italian.^[14]
• Cafe Europa Revisited, Penguin (2021) ISBN 978-0143134176, also worry Croatian, Ukrainian, and Persian.^[15]

Articles

References

External links