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"Dubravka Ugresicis the author of six works of fiction, includingThe Museum of Unconditional Surrender, and six essay collections, including the NBCC award finalist,Karaoke Culture.In 2016, shewas awardedtheNeustadt International Prize for Literature for her body of work.She went into exile from Croatia after being labeled a ""witch"" for her anti-nationalistic stance during the Yugoslav war. She lived in the Netherlands until her passing in March 2023. Celia Hawkesworthis the translator of numerous works of Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian literature, including Dubravka Ugresic'sThe Culture of Liesfor which she won the Heldt Prize for Translation in 1999. She also received the Best Translated Book Award for her translation ofEEGby Daa Drndi."
"""Ugresic's recent work [is] veery Central European in form, a collage of essays, sketches, feuilletons, numbered aperçus, reminiscent of the best non-fiction of Danilo Kis or György Konrád. She is brave in denouncing the perversions of political and cultural life in Croatia, but also wonderfully ironical about the quasi-heroic roles in which she find herself now unwillingly cast. The book is subtle, funny, and clear-eyed.""--Timothy Garton-Ash, International Books of the Year, Times Literary Supplement"
