Drndić has in her own way composed an astonishment that extracts light from darkness.—The Jewish Daily Forward
Daša Drndić (1946-2018) wrote Trieste—“splendid, absorbing” (The New York Times)—shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and Belladonna—“one of the strangest and strongest books” (TLS)— winner of the 2018 Warwick Prize, and EEG–“a masterpiece” (Joshua Cohen). She also wrote plays, criticism, radio plays, and documentaries.
Translated from the Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth
Translated from the Croatian by S.D. Curtis Celia Hawkesworth
Translated from the Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth
Translated from the Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth
Drndić’s formidable intelligence and Homeric intention cannot help but thrill and exalt.—Dustin Illingworth, The Paris Review
Drndić interweaves fiction, reality, history, and memory to terrific effect, producing unforgettable meditations on love and loss, the insanity of war and the legacy of human cruelty.—Lucy Popescu, The White Review
Her writing glows with an incendiary bleakness worthy of Beckett.—Boyd Tonkin, The Arts Desk
One of the most electrifying prose writers of our time.—The Hudson Review
Drndić’s formidable intelligence and Homeric intention cannot help but thrill and exalt.—Dustin Illingworth, The Paris Review Daily
Her incisive skill and radical style render potentially grim reading compulsive. She was a voice of–and for–our times.—Times Literary Supplement
Drndić cultivates a visionary art of memory. She rescues the names, and the lives, of the lost. Her writing glows with an incendiary bleakness worthy of Beckett.—Boyd Tonkin, The Arts Desk
Daša Drndić was incapable of writing a sentence that was not forceful, fierce or funny–or all three simultaneously.—The Guardian
Drndić has in her own way composed an astonishment that extracts light from darkness.—The Jewish Daily Forward
Drndić is writing to witness and to make the pain stick. Even at their most lurid, her sentences remain coldly dignified.—New York Times Book Review
