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About Dasa Drndic

DASA DRNDIC (1946 - 2018) was a distinguished Croatian novelist playwright and literary critic author of radio plays and documentaries. She was born in Zagreb and studied English language and literature at the University of Belgrade. She then obtained a Master's degree in Theatre and Communications from Southern Illinois University in the United States which she attended with the aid of a Fulbright scholarship. Drndic worked as an editor a professor of English and as a TV programme editor in Belgrade. She obtained her doctorate at the University of Rijeka in Croatia where she later taught. She is the author of thirteen novels including Leica Format (2003) Sonnenschein (2007) Trieste (2011) and Belladonna (2012). Her works have been translated into many languages and Drndic has won the International Literary Award Prozart in 2014 awarded to a prominent author for their contribution towards the development of the literature on the Balkans. Her work has also been shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the inaugral EBRD Literature Prize.