SLAVENKA DRAKULI

SLAVENKA DRAKULI‚ was born in Rijeka, Croatia (former Yugoslavia). She studied world literature and sociology at the University of Zagreb. In the 1980s, she worked as a journalist for major Yugoslav news magazines. Since 1992, Ms. Drakuliƒ is a free-lance journalist and writer. Her books have been translated and published in several European countries, USA, and Japan, and she has become the most often translated contemporary Croatian author. Her stories and essays appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, and The Observer, among others. She contributes regularly to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, La Stampa, Dagens Nyheter, and Politiken. She has been profiled in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and many other newspapers. Ms. Drakulić’s most recent book (its American edition is due out this summer from Penguin/Viking Press), They Would Never Hurt a Fly: War Criminals on Trial in the Hague, examines the political, social, moral, and legal aftermath of the Yugoslav succession wars. She is also the author of four collections of essays (Mortal Sins of Feminism, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed, The Balkan Express, and Café Europa), and four novels (Holograms of Fear, Marble Skin, The Taste of a Man and S. A Novel About the Balkans).