Lit in Translation

Saša Ilić

Born 1972 · Serbia

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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    NIN 2019 · Winner

    Pas i kontrabas

    Title translated by AI:“The Dog and the Double Bass”

    Saša Ilić · 47 when first published

    Novel · 303 pages · Politics, War

    AI-generated summary:A jazz double bassist who no longer plays, the instrument long grown onto his back, leads the way through places his society would rather forget, from a Yugoslav navy warship and the asylum in Kovin to the refugee-filled port of Genoa.

  • No English yet

    NIN 2005 · Shortlist

    Berlinsko okno

    Title translated by AI:“The Berlin Window”

    Saša Ilić · 33 when first published

    Novel · 304 pages · Politics, Migration

    AI-generated summary:Sent to Berlin by a non-governmental organisation to record the stories of people who fled the Balkan wars, the narrator instead hears the life of his landlord, Viktor Greber, an elderly East Berliner, and of the artist Iza Fermeren.