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Event Details
- Date: Saturday, 28 September 2024
- Start time: 19:00 CEST / 13:00 EDT / 10:00 PDT / 3:00 AEST (29 Sep)
- End time: 20:30 CEST / 14:30 EDT / 11:30 PDT / 4:30 AEST (29 Sep)
- Online event – Zoom
About the Event
Author Lidija Dimkovska discusses how post/ex-Yugoslav authors think and feel about Yugoslavia, and how the loss of the country affected them and reflects in their work, and how they meet and collaborate. Moderated by Eamon McGrath.
Dimkovska is a Macedonian poet, novelist, and translator. She lives in Ljubljana, working as a freelance writer and translator of Romanian and Slovenian literature. She is the author of A Spare Life; her latest book is Grandma Non-Oui. Her books have been translated into 15 languages.
Eamon McGrath is a writer and critic currently based in Brooklyn. He writes about literature from Southeastern Europe Instagram @BalkanBooks. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Full Stop, Balkanist, and others. He is a Yugoblok member.
Giveaways
- A copy of Dimkovska’s A Spare Life will be given away to one randomly selected U.S. based event guest.
- A copy of Dimkovska’s Grandma Non-Oui will be given away to one other randomly selected event guest
Pre-Event Media
- Remembering Yugoslavia podcast: “#exyulit” (Episode #89) & “Found in Translation” (Episode #90)
- “The Night Is Itself a Novel: Talking with Lidija Dimkovska,” The Rumpus, November 29, 2017
- “Lidija Dimkovska,” European Prize for Literature, 2013
Lidija Dimkovska photo by CC BY-SA Tihomir Pinter
