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Slavenka Drakulic _________________
Croatia (1949- )
In 1984 her collection of essays was published with the title Mortal Sins of Feminism. In 1987 she publishes her first novel Holograms of Fear on the subject of personal experience with approaching death (Slavenka has been fighting a kidney disease for decades). In her second novel, Marble Skin, she explores the relationship between mother and daughter, and in her third novel Divine Hunger the relationship between passion and possessiveness towards a man.
Beside these novels, Slavenka published three books of essays which were originally written in English language: The first one was translated in twelve languages, and the second in 18, including Japanese. The author lives in Sweden where her book was on the list of bestsellers for a year. Her last book is about the women's experiences of rape women during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
She continues to write essays and editorials that frequently appear in American and European magazines and newspapers. (www.crowmagazine.com)
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Slavenka Drakulic was born in Rijeka, Croatia in 1949. She graduated comparative literature and sociology from the University in Zagreb. Since 1976 she publishes articles and essays in Croatian magazines, weeklies and daily newspapers.
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