Miroslav Krleža: where to start with Croatia’s most famous writer 
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        ‘We shattered along with Yugoslavia:’ writer Saša Stanišić on processing trauma
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Coming alive with skiing: The Accident is an elegant interwar novel on winter love | Calvert Reads
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Be beguiled and bewitched by Dubravka Ugresic’s novel Fox | Calvert Reads
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        László Krasznahorkai: where to start with his literature
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Hamid Ismailov’s Manaschi is a magnetic novel about the bard-shamans at the heart of Kyrgyzstan’s myths | Calvert Reads
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        ‘I slept with my emergency bag near my bed.’ Belarusian author Victor Martinovich on his banned political thrillers
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        In her novel Catch the Rabbit, Lana Bastašić explores who tells the story of Yugoslavia’s ethnic conflict
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Fyodor Dostoevsky: where to start with his literature 
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Ágota Kristóf’s ‘The Notebook’ is a tale of twisted morality and survival during wartime | Calvert Reads
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        ‘A feminist in my own way:’ Romanian writer Magda Cârneci on her novel FEM
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        ‘Instinct for catastrophe’: French writer Jakuta Alikavazovic on the ghosts of the Yugoslav war
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Memory, migrants, magic: 11 books to look forward to in 2021
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Feminist poetry, migration tales and satire: the 10 best Eastern European books of 2020
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Young in the 90s: in her debut novel, director Nana Ekvtimishvili explores a decade most Georgians want to forget
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Myth, fiction, reportage: 8 books that paint a portrait of the North Caucasus, then and now 
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Vivid and richly detailed, ‘Catherine the Great and the Small’ explores a migrant’s fragmented identity 
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
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