BIOGRAPHY FELLOW 2015 – 2016

Gordon-Dana Grozdanić

For a biography of Zija Dizdarević

Gordana-Dana Grozdanić is a lecturer at the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, where she teaches German and Eastern European literatures and German language. In her first book, ´Vor unserer Haustür.´ Auseinandersetzungen deutschsprachiger Autoren mit dem Jugoslawienkrieg, 1991-1996 [At Our Doorsteps.´ The Yugoslav War in the German-speaking Literature], she explored how German speaking authors grappled with the secession wars in the former Yugoslavia. Her interests include recent Central and South European literature, literary encounters between the German-speaking and South Slavic cultures, and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian exile and war literature. As a Leon Levy fellow she worked on a biography of Zija Dizdarević, the Bosnian interwar writer, whose short stories she is translating into English.