Dubravka Ugresic Reading (Back to events)
- Wed, Sep 17th 2008, 7:00pm
- Located at : 341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo NY
Just Buffalo/UB English Department present a reading by Croatian author-in-translation Dubravka Ugresic. She has earned an exceptional reputation, having won numerous international literary awards, the most recent of which include: 2007: Shortlisted for Angelus Central European Literary Award. Poland; 2006: Shortlisted for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. UK; 2006: PEN Writers in Translation Award. UK; 2004: Premio Feronia – Citta di Fiano. Italy; 2000: Heinrich Mann Preis, Akademie Der Kunste Berlin. Germany. Her high profile in Europe means her United States audiences are due to be delighted by her works, and Buffalonians familiar with the BABEL series are sure to enjoy an additional internationally-acclaimed author coming to Western New York.
Dubravka Ugresic was born in 1949 in (what used to be) Yugoslavia, in its republic Croatia. She earned her degrees in Comparative Literature and Russian Language and Literature at the University of Zagreb, and worked for twenty years at the Institute for Theory of Literature at Zagreb University, successfully pursuing parallel careers as a writer and a literary scholar.
September 17, 7PM
Hallwalls
341 Delaware Avenue
