literature from the Balkans Archives

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Book Club at Hatchards, Piccadilly, Spring-Summer 2025 News

February 16, 2025 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Following the success of the first year of the BookBlast® Translation Book Club at Hatchards, Piccadilly, we are thrilled to announce the titles up for discussion from March to June. We will meet as usual […]

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Sarajevo Firewood Saïd Khatibi Review

November 22, 2021 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Saïd Khatibi’s polyphonic novel, Sarajevo Firewood, pays homage to the victims of civil war in Algeria and Bosnia in the 1990s, and gives the survivors a voice. Scarred by erratic memories and traumatic recall – […]

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The Fig Tree Goran Vojnović Review

October 16, 2020 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

This review of The Fig Tree by Goran Vojnović accompanies Lucy Popescu’s interview with him and his translator Olivia Hellewell discussing the effects of war on successive generations of a family marked by the disintegration […]

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Wild Woman Marina Šur Puhlovski & Under Pressure Faruk Šehić Review

August 4, 2019 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

What can the novels Wild Woman by Marina Šur Puhlovski and Under Pressure by Faruk Šehić tell us about the breakup of Yugoslavia which caused such a tectonic shift in Balkan identity? Each to their […]

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Read the World with MacLehose Press pt 2 Spotlight

February 11, 2019 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Read the World with MacLehose Press which specialises in the very best translated literary and crime fiction. If words can offer new worlds, you will find them in the pages of the books by the […]

Belgrade Book Fair Serbia Spotlight

October 27, 2018 Guest Contributor Comments Off

Spotlight feature by Susan Curtis, publisher at Istros Books, about Belgrade Book Fair in Serbia. The opening ceremony of the annual Belgrade Book Fairtook place on Sunday 21 October, officially starting one of the biggest […]

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Christina Pribićević-Zorić, Susan Curtis BookBlast® Waterstones 10×10 Tour Nottingham

September 18, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

At Waterstones Nottingham, the fourth talk of the BookBlast® Waterstones 10×10 Tour, a nationwide celebration of independent publishing, features Istros Books, founded in 2011 to showcase the very best fiction and non-fiction from the Balkan […]

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Christina Pribićević-Zorić Translator Interview

September 18, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast interview with Christina Pribićević-Zorić, translator Christina Pribićević-Zorić, tell us a little bit about yourself I am from New York. My mother was Irish and my father was from the former Yugoslavia so I had […]