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
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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
While the US prepares for a Slovenian First Lady, here in the UK we were ahead of the game, with a new trio of novels from that lovely Alpine country, published this autumn by Pete
Panorama by Dušan Šarotar Afterword by Stephen Watts Panorama is Dušan Šarotar’s fourth novel, following on from Island of the Dead, Billiards at Hotel Dobray and Stay with
chapter 9 SARA Summer had burst into all its elements: the remote azure of the sky, the light breeze that chased along the scorching, neglected concrete. He had always loved Ljublj
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The Black Box is the latest satirical novel from one of Europe’s funniest and most exciting emerging writers. In 1990 two Bulgarian brothers, Ned and Angel, receive an unusual pa
