Dubravka Ugrešić (1949–2023)
Autore di Baba Yaga Laid an Egg
Sull'Autore
Dubravka Ugresic was born and raised in what used to be Yugoslavia. In 1993, she left Croatia for political reasons. She has taught in several American and European universities and been awarded many international prizes for her writing
Opere di Dubravka Ugrešić
Mali plamen 2 copie
Pocetnica za nepismene 1 copia
STEFICA CVEK U RALJAMA ZIVOTA 1 copia
Adios 1999 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Wall in My Head: Words and Images from the Fall of the Iron Curtain (2009) — Collaboratore — 54 copie
The Second Gates of Paradise: The Anthology of Erotic Short Fiction (1997) — Collaboratore — 36 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Ugrešić, Dubravka
- Data di nascita
- 1949-03-27
- Data di morte
- 2023-03-17
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Yugoslavia
Croatia - Nazione (per mappa)
- Croatia
- Luogo di nascita
- Kutina, Yugoslavia
- Luogo di morte
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Luogo di residenza
- Kutina, Croatia
Amsterdam, Netherlands - Istruzione
- University of Zagreb (Comparative Literature, Russian Language and Literature)
- Attività lavorative
- freelance writer
teacher - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Austrian State Prize for European Literature (1999)
"Mesa Selimović" by daily newspapers Vecernje novosti (1988)
"Ksaver Sandor Gjalski" (1988)
Annual reward for a novel by weekly magazine NIN (1988)
Reward of City of Zagreb (1989)
Prix Europeen de l’ Essai Charles Veillon (1996) (mostra tutto 16)
SWF-Bestenliste Literaturpreis (1998)
Versetsprijs, Stichting Kunstenaarsverzet ( [1942, 1945] ∙ [1997])
Heinrich Mann Preis, Akademie Der Kunste Berlin (2000)
Reward of PEN centre B&H (2002)
Katarina Frankopan ( [2002])
Premio Feronia – Citta di Fiano (2004)
Man Booker International Prize Finalist (2009)
Neustadt International Prize for Literature (2016)
Vilenica International Literary Prize (2016)
Crystal Vilenica (1989) - Agente
- The Susijn Agency Ltd.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 29
- Opere correlate
- 5
- Utenti
- 2,194
- Popolarità
- #11,694
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 63
- ISBN
- 166
- Lingue
- 21
- Preferito da
- 6
This won the Tiptree Award in 2010, but is also of interest to me because I know Croatia a bit – we lived in Zagreb for several months in 1998, and I get back when I can.
It’s a novel in three parts. In the first, the (Croatian) narrator talks about her elderly (Bulgarian) mother in Zagreb, and visits Bulgaria; the second part, which occupies the middle two quarters of the book, is about three old Czech ladies at a spa, and the various people they interact with, including a Bosnian masseur; and a fictional anthropologist’s guide to the lore of Baba Yaga, the mythic Slavic crone who flies in various conveyances (often a mortar bowl) across the land.
The stories are engaging in themselves, and also very layered in folklore, with the last section explaining some of the roots of the first two. It’s very entertaining to see old themes reworked, and it works in part because the old folkoric themes are so powerful and tap us at a deep level, and in part because it is funny. The third section, an academic essay in form, ought not to work – I’ve seen other authors earnestly explaining the symbolism of their stories, usually very badly – but it does, I think because Ugrešić’s humour comes through as well.
I also found it interesting that Ugrešić has pulled together perspectives from several different Slavic traditions – Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech and Bosnian – and found threads unifying them. Certainly I had always thought of Baba Yaga purely in Russian terms, and it’s salient to be reminded that there are a lot of other places that share the old Slavic traditions in different ways.
It’s also quite short, another point in its favour.… (altro)