Lit in Translation

Darko Cvijetić

Born 1968 · Bosnia & Herzegovina

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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    tportal 2025 · Shortlist

    Previše mi to. Osam djevojčica

    Title translated by AI:“It's Too Much for Me. Eight Little Girls”

    Darko Cvijetić · 56 when first published

    Novel · 197 pages · War

    AI-generated summary:Drawing on a true event in Prijedor, a novel of poetic fragments, documents and sketches about the deaths of eight girls in the war and a community that never faced its guilt.

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    NIN 2020 · Shortlist

    Što na podu spavaš

    Title translated by AI:“Why Do You Sleep on the Floor”

    Darko Cvijetić · 52 when first published

    Novel · 110 pages · War, Family

    AI-generated summary:The narrator, Darko, follows his brother Boto, their parents and their grandmothers as fear of the coming war grows and their country breaks apart, moving between the 1990s, the Second World War and the early 2000s.