On the occasion of Incroci di Civiltà, an international festival of literature organized by the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi hosts in Punta della Dogana a talk by the Croatian writer Dubravka Ugrešić talks with Neval Berber (scholar and translator) and Laura Graziano (Wake Forest University).
Incroci di Civiltà are four days in which great writers of our time talk about their works and their cultures in conversation with experts and readers.
Dubravka Ugrešić
Born in Kutina, Croatia, she studied Literature and Russian at the University of Zagreb, also taking an interest in the philosophy and human rights that Yugoslavia did not take sufficiently into account.
She made her debut as a writer in 1971 and was successful in 1981 with Štefica Cvek u raljama života, an ironic post-modernist novel. In 1984, director Rajko Grlić made a film, U raljama života.
Her criticism, at times mocking, of nationalism and war earned her the labels of public enemy, traitor, "witch". He left Croatia in 1993 for the Netherlands.
In 1999, she was awarded the Österreichischer Staatspreis für Europäische Literatur by the Austrian government, thus confirming herself as one of the best-known European authors. In 2004, he also won the Feronia Prize in Fiano.
