Frida's Bed

About the Author

Slavenka Drakulić was born in Croatia in 1949. Her nonfiction books include How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed, a feminist critique of communism that brought her to the attention of the public in the West; The Balkan Express: Fragments from the Other Side of the War, a personal eyewitness account of the war in her homeland; Café Europa: Life After Communism (Penguin); and They Would Never Hurt a Fly (Penguin). Drakulić is also the author of the novels Holograms of Fear, which was a bestseller in Yugoslavia and was short-listed for The Best Foreign Book Award by The Independent (UK), Marble Skin, The Taste of a Man (Penguin), and S. (Penguin). A freelance journalist who contributes to The New York Times, The Nation, The New Republic, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany), Dagens Nyheter (Sweden), and La Stampa (Italy), as well as other magazines and newspapers, she now divides her time among Sweden, Austria, and Croatia.