Ivana Bodrozic \'s In a Sentimental Mood is emotional, but never woeful, deliberate, yet playful poetry capable of reaching both the highest and deepest registers of expression.
He divides his time between The Hague, the Netherlands, and Split, Croatia..
His notable poetry translations into Croatian include the work of Leonard Cohen, Charles Bukowski, Raymond Carver, Charles Simic, Richard Brautigan, and Frank O\'Hara.
Damir Sodan is a Croatian poet, playwright, editor, and translator.
She is the president of the American Literary Translators Association.
Her translation of David Albahari\'s novel Götz and Meyer was given the 2006 ALTA National Translation Award.
Ellen Elias-Bursac translates fiction and nonfiction from Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian, including Ivana Bodrozic \'s novel The Hotel Tito .
Bodrozic\'s work has been translated into English, German, French, Czech, Danish, Slovenian, Hungarian, Spanish, Italian, and Macedonian.
Her novel The Pit was awarded the Balkan Noir Prize for best crime novel.
She has also published the poetry collection Prijelaz za divlje zivotinje ( A Road for Wild Animals ) and the short story collection 100% Pamuk ( 100% Cotton ).
Her first novel Hotel Zagorje ( Hotel Tito ) was published in 2010 and went on to be a Croatian best-seller; the French edition won the prestigious Prix Ulysse for best debut novel.
In 2005, she published her first poetry collection, Prvi korak u tamu ( The First Step Into Darkness ) as part of the Goran Award for Young Poets.
About author(s): Ivana Bodrozic lives in Zagreb, Croatia.
To lose your dignity and the dignity of your words--that is the worst thing.
From abstract jazz-inspired musings to bedroom intimacies, these poems converse with the idea that being alone is not the worst thing that can happen to a person.
Ivana Bodrozic \'s In a Sentimental Mood is emotional, but never woeful, deliberate, yet playful poetry capable of reaching both the highest and deepest registers of expression
