Dubravka Ugrešić
| Dubravka Ugrešić | |
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27 March 1949 Kutina, Croatia, Yugoslavia |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Dutch/Croatian |
| Citizenship | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Notable awards | Neustadt International Prize for Literature (2016), Vilenica Prize (2016) |
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Dubravka Ugrešić (pronounced [dûbraːʋka ûgreʃit͡ɕ]; born 27 March 1949) is a post-Yugoslav writer. A graduate of University of Zagreb, she has been living in the Netherlands since the 1990s, currently living in Amsterdam.
Ugrešić majored in comparative literature and Russian language at the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Arts, pursuing parallel careers as a scholar and as a writer. After graduation she continued to work at the university, at the Institute for Theory of Literature. In 1993 she left Croatia for political reasons. She has spent time teaching at European and American universities, including UNC-Chapel Hill, UCLA, and Harvard University. She is based in Amsterdam where she is a freelance writer and contributor to several American and European literary magazines and newspapers.
Novels and short stories
Dubravka Ugrešić has published novels and short story collections. Her much loved “patchwork” novella is Steffie Speck in the Jaws of Life (Croatian: Štefica Cvek u raljama života), published in 1992. Filled with references to works of both high literature (by authors such as Gustave Flaubert and Bohumil Hrabal) and trivial genres (such as romance novels and chick lit), it represents a sophisticated and lighthearted postmodern play with the traditional concept of the novel. It follows a young typist named Steffie Speck, whose name was taken from a Dear Abby column, as she searches for love, both parodying and being compelled by the kitschy elements of romance. The novel was made into a successful 1984 Yugoslav film In the Jaws of Life, directed by Rajko Grlić.
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