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Mira Otašević

Born 1944 · Serbia

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  • In English

    NIN 2017 · Shortlist

    The Gorgons

    Gorgone

    Mira Otašević · 73 when first published

    Novel · 147 pages · Historical, War

    AI-generated summary:The lives of writers, actors, musicians, painters, lovers, soldiers, executioners and victims, Brecht, Beuys and Django among them, collide in an age bounded by the world wars, the destructive ones and the cold one.

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    NIN 2012 · Shortlist

    Zoja

    Mira Otašević · 68 when first published

    Novel · 105 pages · War, Historical

    AI-generated summary:Through the lives of women bound in different ways by photography, the twentieth century unfolds, from the illusory calm of Paris in the early 1930s through the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War to Vietnam, 1968 and Sarajevo in the 1990s.