Karaoke Culture

TRANSLATOR BIOS

David Williams is currently completing his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of Auckland, his doctoral research centering on the post-Yugoslav writings of Dubravka Ugresic and the idea of a “literature of the Eastern European ruins.” Karaoke Culture is his first major translation.

Ellen Elias-Bursać has translated works by several writers from the former Yugoslavia, including David Albahari’s Götz and Meyer, for which she was awarded the ALTA National Translation Award in 2006.

Celia Hawkesworth was senior lecturer in Serbian and Croatian at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London, until her retirement. She now works as a freelance writer and translator.