Ksaver Šandor Gjalski Award
1 appearances
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Edition 6 (1988) Winner
Dubravka Ugrešić
ドゥブラーヴカ・ウグレシッチ
Dubravka Ugrešić
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1949-03-27 （Kutina）
- Died
- 2023-03-17 （Amsterdam） age 73
- Nationality
- Croatian, Dutch, Yugoslav
- Languages
- Croatian, Serbo-Croatian, Russian, English
- Residence History
- Kutina, Croatia → Zagreb, Croatia → Amsterdam, Netherlands
Career
- Occupations
- Writer, Scholar, Comparative Literature Specialist
- Active Years
- 1978-2023
- Affiliations
- Institute for Theory of Literature, University of Zagreb
- Influenced By
- Mikhail Bulgakov, Bohumil Hrabal
- Influenced
- Danilo Kiš
- Nominations
- Man Booker International Prize nomination (2009)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Zagreb | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences | Department of Comparative Literature and Russian Language | — | 1960年代後半-1970年代初頭 | Croatia |
University of Zagreb
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
/ Department of Comparative Literature and Russian Language
Period:
1960年代後半-1970年代初頭
Year of Graduation:
1972
Country:
Croatia
Majored in comparative literature and Russian language
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | NIN Award | Fording the Stream of Consciousness | — | NIN | 受賞 |
| 2016 | Neustadt International Prize for Literature | — | — | World Literature Today | 受賞 |
| 2016 | Vilenica Prize | — | — | Vilenica International Literary Festival | 受賞 |
NIN Award
1988
Work:
Fording the Stream of Consciousness
Organization:
NIN
Result:
受賞
Neustadt International Prize for Literature
2016
Organization:
World Literature Today
Result:
受賞
Vilenica Prize
2016
Organization:
Vilenica International Literary Festival
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
NIN Award (Award for Best Novel of the Year)
1 appearances
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Edition 34 (1988) Winner
Austrian State Prize for European Literature
1 appearances
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Edition 33 (1998) Winner
Heinrich Mann Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 80 (2000) Winner
Otherwise Award (formerly the James Tiptree, Jr. Award)
1 appearances
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Edition 20 (2010) Winner
Neustadt International Prize for Literature
1 appearances
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Edition 24 (2016) Winner
Vilenica International Literary Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 31 (2016) Winner
Works
Major Works
Steffie Speck in the Jaws of Life
1981 NovellaA postmodern novella about a young typist searching for love.
PostmodernismKitschRomance
Adaptations
- [Film] In the Jaws of Life / Rajko Grlić (1984)
Translations
- English translation available
Bibliography
- A Pose for Prose (1978)
- Steffie Speck in the Jaws of Life (1981)
- Fording the Stream of Consciousness (1988)
Translations by Author
- Boris Pilnyak, from Russian to Croatian
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- PostmodernEssayisticSatirical
- Recurring Motifs
- ExileNationalismWarIdentity
Legacy
Exiled Yugoslav writer critically addressing nationalism and war, highly regarded internationally.
Quotes
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Great literary pieces are great because, among other things, they are in permanent polemics with their readers...
Source: Interview
Trivia
- Mother was Bulgarian.
- Identified as a Yugoslav writer.
- First woman to win the NIN Award.