Zbornik Mednarodnega literarnega srečanja Vilenica 2004 - Ljudmila

Daša Drndič se je rodila l. 1946 v Zagrebu. Za njo je več popolnoma
različnih življenj v različnih mestih, različnih državah, ob različnih ljudeh.
Študirala je medicino, se omožila z zobozdravnikom, diplomirala iz anglistike,
se ločila od zobozdravnika, opravila magisterij na dramaturgiji.
Ukvarjala se je z dokumentarno radiofonijo, napisala kakih trideset radijskih
iger, prevajala, poučevala, plavala, pleskala stanovanja, lakirala parkete,
izdelovala pohištvo, se trinajst let intenzivno družila s svojim otrokom,
potem je spet začela pisati. Ne zna kvačkati, zna pa kuhati. Ne da se ji nič
več delati. Ne mara pisati svojega življenjepisa.
Knjige proze: Put do subote (1982), Kamen s neba (1984), Umiranje u
Torontu (1997), Canzone di guerra (1998), Totenwande (Meandar, Zagreb,
2000), Doppelgänger (2002), Leica format (2003).
Trenutno stanuje na Reki. Ne ve prav dobro, kaj tam počne.
Daša Drndić was born in Zagreb, Croatia. From 1953 to 1992 she lived
and worked in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. In 1992 she came to Croatia, then in
1995 emigrated to Canada, and returned to Croatia two years later. She
graduated from the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology, Department
of English Language and Literature. As a Fulbright Fellow she completed
her Master’s Degree in Theatre and Communications in the USA.
For over twenty years she worked as editor, producer and writer in the
Drama department of Radio Belgrade. Her radio-plays and feature-documentaries
have been awarded and broadcast throughout former Yugoslavia
and abroad. In 1996 and 1997, for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
she produced three documentaries (features) – Lost in the Promised
Land, The Church in Croatia, and Children of Our Age. In 2002 her play
Arthur and Isabella (Croatian Radio) participated on »Prix Europa« winning
6 th place. She published prose and poetry in literary journals throughout
former Yugoslavia. She also won the short-story prize of »The European«
in 1993 (Eeeny, meeny, miney, mo – out you go). She translates
books and essays from and into English. A novelist.
Her books of prose include: The Road to Saturday (1982), The Stone from
Heaven (1984), The Black Madonna (1997), Canzone di guerra (1998),
Totenwande (2000), Doppelgänger (2002), Leica format (2003).
She writes literary criticism for the Third Programme of Croatian Radio,
for the literary journal »Zarez« (Zagreb) and the dailies »Novi list« and
»Slobodna Dalmacija«. She is a member of the Croatian Association of
Writers and the Croatian P.E.N.
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