Lit in Translation

Vladimir Pištalo

Born 1960 · Serbia

In English
2 of 3

Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    NIN 2023 · Shortlist

    Pesma o tri sveta

    Title translated by AI:“A Song of Three Worlds”

    Vladimir Pištalo · 63 when first published

    Novel · 307 pages · Historical

    AI-generated summary:Ozana Bolica, a curious and gifted woman from Perast in the Bay of Kotor, is made a slave and carried across three worlds, from Venice and Tunis to Salem, in an age of empire, piracy and witch hunts.

  • In English

    NIN 2008 · Winner

    Tesla: A Portrait with Masks

    Tesla, portret među maskama

    Vladimir Pištalo · 48 when first published

    Novel · 420 pages · Historical

    AI-generated summary:A lyrical novel of the life of Nikola Tesla, from his childhood in Lika to Budapest, Paris and New York, which is also a chronicle of the age that changed more in his lifetime than in all the centuries before.

  • In English

    NIN 2000 · Shortlist

    Millennium in Belgrade

    Milenijum u Beogradu

    Vladimir Pištalo · 40 when first published

    Novel · 228 pages · Love, War

    AI-generated summary:Five friends who grew up in a dreamlike, half-mythical Belgrade try to hold on to their friendship and their loves as the war that begins in 1991 and the city's long decline tear at their lives.