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Balkan Blues: Writing Out of Yugoslavia

Joanna Labon

This collection first appeared as a special issue of Storm, the British literary journal of new eastern European writing. Joanna Labon has selected excellent, timely essays, stories, drama, and prose by exiled or silenced members of the Yugoslav intelligentsia.

Contributors: Dubravka Ugresic, Bogdan Bogdanovic, Dragan Velikic, Danilo Kis, Drago Jančar, Mirko Kovač, Goran Stefanovski, Dzevad Karahasan, and Slobodan Blagojevic.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Northwestern University Press
  • Publish Date: Oct 25th, 1995
  • Pages: 268
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.97in - 4.76in - 0.83in - 0.63lb
  • EAN: 9780810113251
  • Categories: Anthologies (multiple authors)

About the Author

JOANNA LABON was born in 1962 and graduated from Manchester University. She worked as a bookseller and as an editor at Faber and Faber before founding Storm in 1990. She was the publisher Jonathan Cape's foreign literature advisor from 1991 to 1993 and for the past several years has been the Institute of Contemporary Arts' main consultant on eastern Europe. She lives in London.

Praise for this book

"A remarkable editorial achievement." --Mark Thompson, Guardian
"Politics, war and landscape are indissolubly wedded, the beauty sustains the suffering, the suffering deepens and gives dark new meaning to the beauty." --Hugh Barnes, Independent
"A collection of contemporary writers celebrating the vibrant culture of what was Yugoslavia even as they verify its end." --American Bookseller