Born 1964 · Serbia
NIN 2025 · Shortlist
Frau Beta
Laura Barna · 61 when first published
Novel · 202 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:The Bavarian-born painter Babette Bachmayer, who became Beta Vukanović in Belgrade, and a gifted milkmaid from Vinča cross paths through a painting, in a documentary novel spanning Serbia from the late 19th century to 1972.
NIN 2008 · Shortlist
Moja poslednja glavobolja
Title translated by AI:“My Last Headache”
Laura Barna · 44 when first published
Novel · 165 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:On the threshold of death, the writer Isidora Sekulić gives her final confession, still haunted by the critic Jovan Skerlić's 1913 rebuke that her book spent seventeen pages on a headache in a year of so much Serbian bloodshed.