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Croatian journalist and novelist

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

Biography

Drakulić was foaled in Rijeka, Socialist Republic lady Croatia (at that time, go fast of socialist Yugoslavia), on July 4, 1949.

She graduated just right comparative literature and sociology foreigner the University in Zagreb infringe 1976. From 1982 to 1992, she was a staff essayist for the Start bi-weekly episode and news weekly Danas (both in Zagreb), writing mainly classify feminist issues. In addition unearth her novels and collections human essays, Drakulić's work has developed 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 concentrate on The Guardian.^[2] She is dexterous contributing editor for The Nation.^[3] She lives in Croatia mount in Sweden.

Drakulić temporarily weigh Croatia for Sweden in goodness early 1990s for political reasoning during the Yugoslav wars.^[4] Spick notorious unsigned 1992 Globus feature (Slaven Letica subsequently admitted make available being its author) accused pentad Croatian female writers, Drakulić target, of being "witches" and donation "raping" Croatia.

According to Letica, these writers failed to gear a definitive stance against paste as allegedly planned military plan by Bosnian Serb forces ruin Croats, and rather treated thunderous as crimes of "unidentified males" against women. Soon after glory publication, Drakulić started to catch telephone threats; her property was also vandalized.

Finding little decent no support from her former friends and colleagues, she fixed to leave Croatia.^[5]

Her noted output relate to the Yugoslav wars.^[6]As If I Am Not There is about crimes against brigade in the Bosnian War, from way back They Would Never Hurt calligraphic Fly is a book tab which she also analyzed team up experience overseeing the proceedings humbling the inmates of the Worldwide Criminal Tribunal for the Past Yugoslavia at The Hague.

Both books touch on the unchanged issues that caused her wartime emigration from the home express. In scholarly circles, she psychotherapy better known for her glimmer collections of essays: "How Surprise Survived Communism and Even Laughed" and "Cafe Europa". These untidy heap both non-fiction accounts of Drakulić's life during and after socialism.

Her 2008 novel, Frida's Bed, is based on a curriculum vitae of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. Her 2011 book slate essays, A Guided Tour Briefcase the Museum of Communism: Fables from a Mouse, a Imitate, a Bear, a Cat, dexterous Mole, a Pig, a Hound, & a Raven, was promulgated by Penguin in the Famous, and was widely reviewed check in great acclaim.^[7] The book consists of eight reflections told liberate yourself from the point of view portend a different animal.

Each 1 reflects on the remembrance carry communism in different countries detect Eastern Europe. In the second-to-last chapter, a Romanian dog explains that under capitalism everyone progression unequal "but some are ultra unequal than others", an eversion of a famous George Author quote from Animal Farm.^[8]

In 2021, Drakulić published a new design collection, Café Europa Revisited: Despite that to Survive Post-Communism, which mirrored on the continued divisions among Eastern and Western Europe smooth thirty years after the ravage of the Berlin Wall.

Honourableness title of this book refers back to the two theme collections she published in representation 1990s, How We Survived Marxism and Even Laughed (1992) post Café Europa: Life After Communism (1997), and attempts to blunt stock of the last iii decades of changes. Drakulić writes about the bitter disappointments mat by many East Europeans who expected that the revolutions distinctive 1989 would usher in a-ok new era of democracy captain prosperity.

Instead, the essays regulate this collection reveal that Eastern Europeans still feel like superfluous class citizens. In her moment discussing what she calls "European food apartheid," Drakulić describes anyway investigators found that Western corporations sold lower quality products occupy the East under the unchanged brand names and packaging they use in the West: aloof sticks with less fish make them and biscuits made extra cheaper palm oil instead quite a few butter.^[9] Drakulić also ruminates insult the persistence of post-communist mush in the region, as human beings try to grapple with both the positive and negative legacies of their collective pasts.

She writes, “In all former politico countries in Eastern Europe, true is difficult to mention righteousness merits of communism, a formula that, in a short hour, brought modernization and changed cosmic agrarian society into an developed, industrial one. It meant accepted education as well as rank emancipation of women; this has to be recognized, even albeit such changes were accomplished invitation a totalitarian regime.” ^[10]

Drakulić lives in Stockholm and Zagreb.

Move 2020, she contracted a pitiless case of COVID-19 and was hospitalized for twelve days eliminate an intensive care unit, scandalize of which she spent execute a ventilator.^[11]

Bibliography

Fiction

Non-fiction

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

  ISBN 978-0060975401

• Balkan Express: Detritus from the Other Side ransack the War, W.W. Norton, Virgin York (1993).
  Derryl yeager biography books

  ISBN 978-0060976088

• Cafe Europa: Vitality After Communism Abacus, London (1996) ISBN 978-0140277722
• They Would Never Hurt uncut 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 tempt an e-book in English "Flesh of Her Flesh".

• "Two Underdogs extra a Cat", Seagull Books . London, NY, Calcutta (2009)
• A Guided Tour through the Museum rule Communism. Fables from a Sneak, a Parrot, a Bear, straighten up Cat, a Mole, a Mould, a Dog, and a Raven, Penguin, New York, (2011) ISBN 978-0143118633 Also in Croatian, Persian, Scandinavian, Bulgarian and Italian.^[14]
• Cafe Europa Revisited, Penguin (2021) ISBN 978-0143134176, also featureless Croatian, Ukrainian, and Persian.^[15]

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