Slavenka Drakulić

Slavenka Drakulić (1949), is a Croatian writer and journalist. She graduated in comparative literature and sociology from the University of Zagreb. From 1982 to 1992 she was a staff writer for the Start bi-weekly newspaper and news weekly Danas (both in Zagreb), writing mainly on feminist issues. Slavenka Drakulić emigrated from Croatia in the early 1990s for political reasons,and is currently based in Stockholm, Vienna and Zagreb. Her books include How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed, Balkan Express: Fragments from the other Side of the War; Cafe Europa: Life After Communism and They Would Never Hurt a Fly: War Criminals on Trial in the Hague.

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