Lana Bastašić

Lana Bastašić (Serbian Cyrillic: Лана Басташић; born 27 August 1986) is a Bosnian and Serbian writer, novelist and translator. She was born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia.

Lana Bastašić
Native name
Лана Басташић
Born (1986-08-27) 27 August 1986
Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia
OccupationNovelist, translator
NationalityBosnian
Alma materUniversity of Banja Luka, University of Belgrade
Notable awards2020 European Union Prize for Literature

Biography

She was born in Zagreb to a Serbian family in 1986 and immigrated to Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina as a young child.[1][2] She studied English at the University of Banja Luka and received an MA in Cultural Studies from the University of Belgrade.[3] In addition to novels, Bastašić has written in many different genres: short stories, children’s stories, poetry, and stage plays. Her debut novel Catch the Rabbit (Serbian: Uhvati zeca) was published in Belgrade in 2018, and then reprinted in Sarajevo.[4] The structure of the book draws inspiration from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with themes of exile, identity, and is divided into twelve chapters, as is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It won the 2020 EU Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the NIN Award.[5] It was translated into English by Bastašić herself and published by Picador in the UK and Restless Books in the US.[6] In 2017, Bastašić has signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.[7]

She currently resides in Switzerland.[8]

Bibliography

Short story collections
  • Permanent Pigments (Trajni pigmenti), 2010. ISBN 9788673980522
  • Fireworks (Vatrometi), 2013
  • Milk Teeth (Mliječni zubi), 2020. ISBN 9789533582986

Novels
  • Catch the Rabbit (Uhvati zeca), 2021. ISBN 9781529039610

References
  1. "Lana Bastašić | Participants". Kosmopolis. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
  2. "An Indies Introduce Q&A With Lana Bastašić". the American Booksellers Association. 20 May 2021. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
  3. "Lana Bastašić". Santa Maddalena Foundation. 4 September 2020. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
  4. Bastašić, Lana (27 May 2021). Catch the Rabbit. Pan Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-5290-3960-3.
  5. "Lana Bastašić | EU Prize for Literature". www.euprizeliterature.eu. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
  6. "Lana Bastašić Still Believes in Beauty - Asymptote Blog". Retrieved 10 September 2021.
  7. Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language, official website, retrieved on 2018-08-16.
  8. Petrick, Daniel. "In her novel Catch the Rabbit, Lana Bastašić explores who tells the story of Yugoslavia's ethnic conflict". The Calvert Journal. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
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