Conversation with author Dubravka Ugrešić, SEEfest 2021 Legacy Award Recipient
April 17, 2021 @ 11:00AM — 12:30PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
SEEfest will honor internationally celebrated author, cultural critic, and essayist Dubravka Ugrešić with this year’s Legacy Award.
Conversation with SEEfest 2021 Legacy Award Recipient, Dubravka Ugrešić
Saturday, April 17, at 11am PST / 2pm EST / 7pm GMT
Global access via Zoom | Advance REGISTRATION required
SEEfest will honor internationally celebrated author, cultural critic, and essayist Dubravka Ugrešić (“The Age of Skin,” "American Fictionary,” “Baba Yaga Laid an Egg”) with this year’s Legacy Award. She is the winner of several prestigious international awards, was the finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2009, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism 2011. Most recently Dubravka Ugrešić was awarded the 2016 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. She lives in Amsterdam. Learn more about Dubravka Ugrešić here.
Ellen Elias-Bursać, translator, will also be joining the conversation.
(photo by Shevuan Williams)
Ellen Elias-Bursac has been translating novels and non-fiction by Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian writers for thirty years, including writing by David Albahari, Neda Miranda Blazević Kreitzman, Ivana Bodrozic, Svetlana Broz, Slavenka Drakulic, Dasa Drndić, Kristian Novak, Djurdja Otrzan, Robert Perisic, Igor Stiks, Vedrana Rudan, Slobodan Selenić, Antun Soljan, Dubravka Ugresić, Karim Zaimović. She is president of the American Literary Translators Association. She has taught at the Harvard Slavic Department, Tufts University, ASU and the New England Friends of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Filozofski fakultet of Zagreb University and spent over six years at the ex-Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague as a translator/reviser in the English Translation Unit.
Hosts
Vera Mijojlić, Moderator; founded the South East European Film Festival in Los Angeles (SEEfest). She began as a journalist and film critic in former Yugoslavia.
Aida Vidan holds a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Harvard University and currently teaches in the Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies at Tufts University. She is a specialist in East European literatures and cultures and documentary filmmaker.
The 16th SEEfest launches on April 28 and continues through May 5. SEEfest CINE-FAN Members get a $20 discount on Festival Passes.
SEEfest programs and activities are supported by CINE-FAN Members, and in part, by the California Arts Council, a state agency; Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture; ELMA Foundation for European Movies in America, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. We are deeply grateful for their continued support of our programs.