Daša Drndić
Daša Drndić (born 1946) is a Croatian writer. She was born in Zagreb and studied English language and literature at the University of Belgrade. She obtained a Masters degree in theatre and communications from Southern Illinois University in the USA, where she had gone with the aid of a Fulbright scholarship. She also studied at Case Western Reserve University. She obtained her doctorate at the University of Rijeka, where she later taught. She worked for many years in the drama department of Radio Belgrade, writing and producing numerous radio plays during that time. She has also worked in publishing.
The author of a number of books, Drndic is best known for her award-winning novel Sonnenschein (2007) which has been translated in many languages. It appeared in English translation under the title Trieste; the translator was Ellen Elias-Bursac. It was nominated for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. An earlier novel Leica Format has been translated by Celia Hawkesworth.[1]
Selected works
- Put do subote (Way to Saturday), 1982
- Kamen s neba (Stone from heaven), 1984
- Marija Częstohowska još uvijek roni suze ili Umiranje u Torontu (Maria Częstohowska still shedding tears or Dying in Toronto), 1997
- Canzone di guerra, 1998
- Totenwande, 2000
- Doppelgänger, 2002
- Leica format, 2003
- Sonnenschein, 2007
- April u Berlinu (April in Berlin), 2009
- Belladonna, 2012