Thursday 9th Oct at 7PMThe Hellenic Centre16-18 Paddington Street, London W1U 5AS TICKETS: £7/£6 concession (ticket includes a drink); booking required Call Me Stratos follows a
Grimm’s Fairy Tales were not originally written for children. They were collected, adapted and preserved by the Brothers Grimm, in the nineteenth century; they were folk tales ha
Ludovic Bruckstein was a Jewish-Romanian author and playwright who wrote in both Yiddish and Romanian. He grew up in northern Romania, in the village of Sighet, many of whose inhab
Thursday 27 September • Waterstones, Nottingham • 6.30 p.m. Chair: Susan Curtis, translator & founding director, Istros Books (books from the Balkans). Founded in 2011 to s
Following the enthusiastic reception in Britain of Mircea Eliade’s first novel, “Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent”, Istros Books continue their incursion into the renowned
How did you learn Serbian? I learned the language through the Hrvatska Matica Iseljenika, the Croatian Heritage Foundation, in Zagreb. In 1998 I left my job as a Spanish interpre
How did you end up being bilingual and did you receive an education in both languages? Having an American mother and Serbian father, I was raised bilingual. I wasn’t an early
How did you learn Serbian? I am from New York My mother was Irish and my father was from the former Yugoslavia, so I had a smattering of the language when I came to Belgrade on a p
Peter Owen Publishers and Istros Books has just launched another of their World Series, bringing readers the very best contemporary fiction from Serbia: House of Remembering and F
Unmissable, imaginative novellas from Slovakia and Serbia. Dana Todorović’s The Tragic Fate of Moritz Tóth is a philosophical novel critics have compared to Bulgakov and Kaf
