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‌ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR

Ellen Elias-Bursać has been translating fiction and non-fiction by Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian writers since the 1980s. The AATSEEL Award for Best Translation into English was given to her translation of David Albahari’s short-story collection Words Are Something Else, and ALTA’s National Translation Award was given to her translation of Albahari’s novel Götz and Meyer in 2006. Her book Translating Evidence and Interpreting Testimony at a War Crimes Tribunal: Working in a Tug-of-War was given the Mary Zirin Prize in 2015.