Dubravka Ugresic
Croatian author and essayist who became one of the most important voices of Eastern European post-communist literature after her exile from Croatia. The Culture of Lies and The Ministry of Pain address cultural memory and displacement.
Works
- The Ministry of PainDark comedy about a Balkan immigrant tutor and her neurotic Croatian students
- Baba Yaga Laid an EggSurreal, absurdist philosophical fable blending Slavic and Western European culture
- The Museum of Unconditional SurrenderExperimental novel about memory, displacement, and post-war European identity
- The Culture of LiesCollection of essays examining propaganda, nationalism, and cultural mythology
- Fording the Stream of Consciousness
- Europe in SepiaEssay collection on nostalgia, Eastern Europe, and the vagaries of memory