Post by remajakovski on Apr 3, 2013 23:19:09 GMT
Croatian Writer’s Society at the London Book Fair
Literary event
Date: 15 – 17 April 2013
Venue: Earls Court Exhibition Centre, Warwick Road, London SW5 9TA
As part of the Welcome Croatia festival, Croatian Writer’s Society will be one of the exhibitors at the forthcoming London Book Fair 2013, with a stand (Y155) organised and run by Susan Curtis-Kojaković, Director of Istros Books, in co-operation with the Croatian Ministry of Culture and the Croatian Writer’s Society. So far a number of contemporary Croatian writers have been invited and have confirmed their attenedance, along with their respective translators:
Josip Novakovich, Croatian writer who has lived in North America for the past few decades, and has just been short-listed for the Man Booker International prize
Daša Drndić, a distinguished Croatian novelist, playwright and literary critic. Long listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, for her book ”Trieste”, published by MacLehose Press
Robert Perišić, author of Our Man in Iraq, Istros Books 2012, endorsed by Slavenka Drakulić, foreword by Tim Judah. US edition, April 2013, Black Balloon, endorsed by Jonathan Franzen
Marinko Koščec, author of “A Handful of Sand”, Istros Books 2013. Koščec is one of the great stylists of Croatian literature and has been a recipient of the Meša Selimović Prize
Matko Sršen, playwright, theater director and author. “Odohohol and Cally Rascal”, children’s fantasy, to be published by Istros Books, 2013
Olja Savičević, poet and novelist, whose best-selling book “Farewell, Cowboy” will be translated by Celia Hawkesworth and published by Istros Books in 2015
Roman Simić-Bodrožić, writer, editor and publisher, representing Fraktura Publishing House
Boris Gunjević, Croatian Theologian and lecturer in Ethics. Author of “Crucified Subject: Without the Grail” and “God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse” with Slavoj Žižek
Ivan Sršen, author, publisher and literary agent for Sandorf, Croatia
Will Firth, one of the leading translators of Croatian into English, translator of Perišić and Koščec, among others
Celia Hawkesworth, the most respected translator from BCS to English working in the UK, and translator of Ugrešić and Sršen
Susan Curtis-Kojaković, founding director of Istros Books, publisher and editor of Koščec, Perišić, Savičević and Sršen in the English language editions
Literary event
Date: 15 – 17 April 2013
Venue: Earls Court Exhibition Centre, Warwick Road, London SW5 9TA
As part of the Welcome Croatia festival, Croatian Writer’s Society will be one of the exhibitors at the forthcoming London Book Fair 2013, with a stand (Y155) organised and run by Susan Curtis-Kojaković, Director of Istros Books, in co-operation with the Croatian Ministry of Culture and the Croatian Writer’s Society. So far a number of contemporary Croatian writers have been invited and have confirmed their attenedance, along with their respective translators:
Josip Novakovich, Croatian writer who has lived in North America for the past few decades, and has just been short-listed for the Man Booker International prize
Daša Drndić, a distinguished Croatian novelist, playwright and literary critic. Long listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, for her book ”Trieste”, published by MacLehose Press
Robert Perišić, author of Our Man in Iraq, Istros Books 2012, endorsed by Slavenka Drakulić, foreword by Tim Judah. US edition, April 2013, Black Balloon, endorsed by Jonathan Franzen
Marinko Koščec, author of “A Handful of Sand”, Istros Books 2013. Koščec is one of the great stylists of Croatian literature and has been a recipient of the Meša Selimović Prize
Matko Sršen, playwright, theater director and author. “Odohohol and Cally Rascal”, children’s fantasy, to be published by Istros Books, 2013
Olja Savičević, poet and novelist, whose best-selling book “Farewell, Cowboy” will be translated by Celia Hawkesworth and published by Istros Books in 2015
Roman Simić-Bodrožić, writer, editor and publisher, representing Fraktura Publishing House
Boris Gunjević, Croatian Theologian and lecturer in Ethics. Author of “Crucified Subject: Without the Grail” and “God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse” with Slavoj Žižek
Ivan Sršen, author, publisher and literary agent for Sandorf, Croatia
Will Firth, one of the leading translators of Croatian into English, translator of Perišić and Koščec, among others
Celia Hawkesworth, the most respected translator from BCS to English working in the UK, and translator of Ugrešić and Sršen
Susan Curtis-Kojaković, founding director of Istros Books, publisher and editor of Koščec, Perišić, Savičević and Sršen in the English language editions