In just three years of war, claims the late Dubravka Ugreić, in The Culture of Lies, her newly reissued text on the conflict, literature [was] destroyed. The same fate awaited any artistic effort that didnt flatter the nationalist mafia, and as for Ugreićborn and raised in Zagrebin 93 she fled, becoming another of those she calls Yugoslav gypsies.
As a child, I saw what follows ethnic cleansing. That’s why I am speaking out about my new home’s silence over Palestinian deaths, says author Lana Bastašić
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