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Slavenka Drakulic
born in Croatia (Yugoslavia) in 1949. Journalist and novelist. From 1982-1992 staff writer for Start Cultural bi-weekly (Zagreb) and news weekly Danas(Zagreb). Published three books of journalism (How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed, Rain Express, Café Europa) and four novels (Holograms Of Fear, Marble Skin, The Taste of a Man, As If I Am Not Here) and most recently They would never hurt a fly. War criminals on trial in The Hague. Her books have been translated into more than fifteen languages, her reports and essays were published in major European and American newspapers and magazines and she contributes regularly to La Stampa, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Dagens Nyheter and Politiken. As a free-lance journalist and writer she currently lives in Stockholm, Sweden.
Eurozine Articles
Bathroom tales
How we mistook normality for paradise
The shortage of toilet paper alone may not have brought down communism, but it's an apt metaphor for a system unable to fulfil people's basic needs. Although Slavenka Drakulic's bathroom is better stocked these days, she's still prone to doubt. Was the normality she and her fellow eastern Europeans longed for just another false paradise? [Turkish version added] [more]
The transformation of Biljana Plavsic
One of the few female war criminals on trial confesses to her guilt in The Hague. [more]
Triumph of evil
Portrait of a war criminal
Slavenka Draculic on Radislav Krstic, the first war criminal to be indicted in The Hague for his role in the Srebrenica massacre. [more]
Who's afraid of Europe?
Opening address at the 14th European Meeting of Cultural Journals
As anxiety about the loss of identity is on the rise in Europe, Slavenka Drakulic, writing in 2000, expresses doubts and hopes about the future of European integration. Is Europe ready for a new identity? [more]