Lit in Translation

Slobodan Tišma

Born 1946 · Serbia

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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    NIN 2019 · Shortlist

    Grozota ili...

    Title translated by AI:“Horror, or...”

    Slobodan Tišma · 73 when first published

    Novel · 234 pages · War

    AI-generated summary:Voices from different ages of one life take turns: a child left by his parents in a children's home, a boy who escapes violence to eastern Bosnia, a young man who goes to war or imagines it, and an old man who wants but fears to write about Srebrenica.

  • No English yet

    NIN 2011 · Winner

    Bernardijeva soba

    Title translated by AI:“Bernardi's Room”

    Slobodan Tišma · 65 when first published

    Novel · 135 pages

    AI-generated summary:Pišta Petrović, a Novi Sad loner living in a flat he believes belongs to the designer Bernardi, abandons it to curl up in the wreck of a Mercedes left in a car park, where memories and daydreams carry him away.