Trieste

Trieste is a work of European high culture. Drndic is writing neither to entertain (her novel is splendid and absorbing nevertheless) nor to instruct (its subject, the Holocaust, is too intractable to yield lessons). She is writing to witness, and to make the pain stick. – Craig Seligman * New York Times *
Trieste is a monumental feat of the imagination. Impassioned and lucid, it is impossible to read it and not come away with a new understanding of the world. Daša Drndic has given us a masterpiece that is not only brilliant, but uncompromisingly humane. How lucky we are. – MAAZA MENGISTE * author of The Shadow King, shortlisted for the Booker Prize *
‘Although this is fiction, it is also a deeply researched historical documentary … It is a masterpiece’ A.N. Wilson, Financial Times. * Financial Times *
‘Original, moving and beautifully translated and produced’ Guardian. * Guardian *
‘A literary tour-de-force’ Amanda Hopkinson, Independent. * Independent *
‘The multifarious elements that comprise Haya’s story and its grand context are an incredibly dense and potent mixture’ Daniel Dahn, Independent on Sunday. * Independent on Sunday *

Daša Drndić was a distinguished Croatian novelist and playwright. She was also a translator and a lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy in Rijeka.

Trieste (2012), her first novel to be translated into English, was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and has since been translated into many other languages. It was followed by Leica Format (2015) and Belladonna (2017). Belladonna was shortlisted for both the inaugural EBRD prize and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize and received stunning reviews.

Daša Drndić died in June 2018.

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