Daša Drndić, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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she was a Croatian writer
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Place of Birth: Zagreb, Zagreb County, Croatia
About Daša Drndić
- Daša Drndic (10 August 1946, Zagreb – 5 June 2018, Rijeka) was a Croatian writer.
- She studied English language and literature at the University of Belgrade.Drndic obtained a master's degree in theatre and communications from Southern Illinois University in the United States, which she attended with the aid of a Fulbright scholarship.
- She studied at Case Western Reserve University.
- In the early 1990s, she moved from Belgrade to Rijeka, and obtained her doctorate at the University of Rijeka, where she later taught.
- She worked for many years in the drama department of Radio Belgrade, writing and producing numerous radio plays during that time.
- She also worked in publishing.
- In 2017, she has signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.The author of a number of books, Drndic is best known for her award-winning novel Sonnenschein (2007) which has been translated in many languages.
- It appeared in English translation under the title Trieste; the translator was Ellen Elias-Bursac.
- It was nominated for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
- An earlier novel, Leica Format, was translated by Celia Hawkesworth.
- In 2017, her penultimate novel, Belladonna, was published in English by New Directions Publishing (also translated by Hawkesworth).
- Her earlier work, Doppelgänger, was published by Istros Books in 2018 (translated by Hawkesworth and Susan Curtis).
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