Slavenka Drakulic

Slavenka Drakulic is a journalist and novelist from Croatia. Her books include They Would Never Hurt a Fly: War Criminals on Trial in The Hague (Penguin, 2004), CafÌ© Europa: Life after Communism (Norton, 1997), and Balkan Express: Fragments from the Other Side of War (Harper Collins, 1993). She has also written the novels S. (Penguin, 1999) and Holograms of Fear (Hutchinson, 1992).

Slavenka Drakulić: violence, memory, and the nation

Writer and journalist Slavenka Drakulić reflects on the use of sexual violence in war, the psyche in conflict, and the gap between official history and personal memory in the former Yugoslavia.

By Slavenka Drakulic and Heather McRobie

/ 7 Oct 2013

Sudden death and the afterlife of truth

He died alone, like a dog. As did so many victims of his murderous nationalist politics. Like no human being should die. Slavenka Drakulic is a journalist and novelist from

By Slavenka Drakulic

/ 16 Mar 2006