Checkpoint by David Albahari

Author:David Albahari
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Restless Books
Published: 2018-07-26T21:47:19+00:00

‌About the author

“A Kafka for our times” (Neue Zürcher Zeitung), David Albahari was born 1948 in Péc, Serbia. He studied English language and literature in Belgrade. In 1994 he moved to Calgary, Canada with his wife and their two children, where he still lives today. He mainly writes novels and short stories and is also an established translator from English into Serbian. He is a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. His collection of short stories, Description of Death, won the Ivo Andrić Award for the best collection of short stories published in Yugoslavia in 1982 and his novel Bait the NIN Award for the best novel published in Yugoslavia in 1996. His latest collection of stories, Every Night in Another Town, has won the important Vital Award, one of the most significant literary awards in Serbia. His books have been translated into sixteen languages. English translations include a selection of short stories, entitled Words Are Something Else, as well as four novels: Tsing, Bait, Snow Man, and Götz and Meyer. He has translated into Serbian many books by authors such as Saul Bellow, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Thomas Pynchon, Margaret Atwood, V. S. Naipaul, and Vladimir Nabokov as well as plays by Sam Shepard, Sarah Kane, Caryl Churchill, and Jason Sherman. He was a participant in the International Writing Program in Iowa (1986) and International Writer-in-Residence at the University of Calgary, under the auspices of the Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Writers Program (1994–95). Between 1991 and 1994 he was president of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Yugoslavia.

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