The Judgment of Richard Richter

About Igor StiksIgor tiks

Igor tiks was born in Sarajevo in 1977 and has lived in Zagreb Paris Chicago Edinburgh and Belgrade. His first novel A Castle in Romagna won the Slavi prize for best first novel in Croatia and was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for 2006. Earning his PhD at the Institut dÉtudes Politiques de Paris and Northwestern University tiks later published a monograph Nations and Citizens in Yugoslavia and the Post-Yugoslav States: One Hundred Years of Citizenship. His novel The Judgment of Richard Richter originally published as Elijahs Chair won the Gjalski and Kiklop Awards for the best novel in Croatia and has been translated into fifteen languages. In addition to winning the Grand Prix of the 2011 Belgrade International Theatre Festival for his stage adaptation of Elijahs Chair tiks was honored with the prestigious Chevalier des arts et des lettres for his literary and intellectual achievements. Ellen Elias-Bursac has been translating novels and nonfiction by Bosnian Croatian and Serbian writers for thirty years. She is the recipient of the 2006 ALTA National Translation Award an American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages award and the Mary Zirin Prize for her book Translating Evidence and Interpreting Testimony at a War Crimes Tribunal: Working in a Tug-of-War. A contributing editor to the online literary journal Asymptote Elias-Bursac spent more than six years at the exYugoslav War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague as a translator/reviser in the English Translation Unit. Her translation of Daa Drndi's novel Trieste was short-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2013.