Fata Morgana
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Svetislav Basara's short fiction plays wild games with time and space while nonetheless keeping one foot grounded at all times in the real-life concerns of a young writer during the late communist and postcommunist eras in the former Yugoslavia. Dealing with civil war and other matters of life and death, Basara's stories remain stubbornly eccentric, retaining every quirk, kink, and convolution made famous in his celebrated English-language debut novel, Chinese Letter.
Svetislav Basara
Svetislav Basara is one of the major figures of contemporary Serbian literature and is the author of over two dozen novels and short story collections. In 2006 he received the NIN Award, and he served as the Serbian Ambassador to Cyprus from 2001 to 2005.
Randall A Major
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Randall A. Major is a linguist and translator. He teaches in the English department at the University of Novi Sad, and is one of the editors and translators of the Serbian Prose in Translation series produced by Geopoetika Publishing in Belgrade. His translations of Basara's In Seach of the Grail and Fata Morgana are also available from Dalkey Archive Press.
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