Underground Barbie - Paperback

Mas a Kolanovic is a multi-genre writer. Her works include the poetry collection Pijavice za usamljene (Leeches for the lonely, 2001), the novel Slobos tina Barbie (Underground Barbie, 2008), the prose poem Jamerika (2013), and the short story collection Pos tovani kukci i druge jezive price (Dear pests and other chilling stories, 2019). The latter received the 2020 EU Prize for Literature, the Pula Book Fair Audience Award, and the Vladimir Nazor Prize for Literature. She is an associate professor in the Department of Croatian Studies at the University of Zagreb. Ena Selimovic is a Yugoslav-born writer and translator. Her work has appeared in Asymptote, World Literary Today, PMLA, Reading in Translation, Balkanist, and others. She holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Washington University in St. Louis and an M.Phil. in comparative literature from Trinity College Dublin. She is a cofounder of Turkoslavia, a translation collective and journal.