Dubravka Ugrešic

**Dubravka Ugrešic** was born in the former Yugoslavia (Croatia). She is a novelist, essayist, and literary scholar and the author of seven works of fiction and six collections of essays. She has won, or been shorlisted for, more than a dozen prizes, including the NIN Award, Austrian State Prize for European Literature, Heinrich Mann Prize, Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Man Booker International Prize, and the James Tiptoe Jr. Award. In 2016, she received the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (the “American Nobel”) for her body of work. Photo: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubravka\_Ugre%C5%A1i%C4%87 "Dubravka Ugrešic on Wikipedia")