Lit in Translation

Vladislav Bajac

Born 1954 · Serbia

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    NIN 2016 · Shortlist

    Hronika sumnje

    Title translated by AI:“A Chronicle of Doubt”

    Vladislav Bajac · 62 when first published

    Novel · 406 pages · Family, Autofiction

    AI-generated summary:A chronicle of one family's life and of a vanished country, following a son's growing up, maturing and decline against the grand illusions of his father's generation.

  • In English

    NIN 2008 · Shortlist

    Hamam Balkania: A Novel and Other Stories

    Хамам Балканија · Hamam Balkanija

    Vladislav Bajac · 54 when first published

    Novel · 362 pages · Historical

    AI-generated summary:Chapters alternate between the sixteenth century of Mehmed Pasha Sokolović, the Serbian boy taken from his home who rose to grand vizier, and the architect Sinan, and our own time, where a writer named Vladislav Bajac meets Orhan Pamuk and other real people.