Favourites

Below we have added some of the books, movies, film festivals, theatre plays, and other literature from and about the post-Yugoslav space that we like, in no particular order. Explore and enjoy!

Books

  • Slavenka Drakulic, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed? Harper Perennial. 2016 
  • Dubravka Ugrešić, The Ministry of Pain. ECCO Press. 2007
  • Dubravka Ugrešić, Nobody’s Home. SAQI Books. 2007.
  • Pajtim Statovci, My Cat Yugoslavia. Pushkin Press. 2017
  • Goran Vojnović, Čefurji Raus (Southern Scum Go Home). Beletrina. 2008
  • Goran Vojnović, Jugoslavija, moja dežela (Yugoslavia, My Fatherland). Beletrina. 2011
  • Saša Stanišić, Where You Come From. Vintage Publishing. 2021
  • Semezdin Mehmedinovic, My Heart. Catapult. 2021
  • Faruk Šehić, Quiet Flows the Una. Istros Books. 2016
  • Aleksandar Hemon, Nowhere Man. Random House USA Inc. 2004
  • Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project. Penguin Putnam Inc. 2009
  • Aleksandar Hemon, The Book of My Lives. Pan Macmillan. 2013
  • Aleksandar Hemon, My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You. Pan Macmillan. 2019.
  • Adnan Mahmutović, How to Fare Well and Stay Fair. Salt Publishing. 2012
  • Selvedin Avdić, Seven Terrors. Istros Books. 2016
  • Selma Asotić, Reci Vatra, Raštan izdavaštvo. 2022
  • Nenad Veličković, Sahib. Stubovi kulture. 2007
  • Radmila Lazić. A Wake for the Living. Graywolf Press U.S. 2004.
  • Arnesa Buljusmic-Kustura. Letters from Diaspora: Stories of War and its Aftermath. Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. 2016.
  • Arben Idrizi. Libri i dhunës (The Book of Violence). Pika Pa Sipërfaqe. 2019. 
  • Rumena Bužarovska, My Husband. Dalkey Archive Press. 2020.
  • Lana Bastašić, Catch the Rabbit. Pan Macmillan. 2021.
  • Ali Podrimja, Who Will Slay the Wolf. Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. 2015.
  • Jeton Neziraj, One Flew Over the Kosovo Theater : An Anthology of Contemporary Drama from Kosovo. Laertes. 2018.
  • Elona Beqiraj. und wir kamen jeden sommer. Resonar Verlag. 2019
  • Xhevdet Bajraj, We Fall Like Children. Laertes. 2018.
  • Xhevdet Bajraj, Emergency Exit. Laertes. 2020.
  • Meral Kureyshi, Elephants in Our Yard. Noumena Press. 2022.
  • Ismail Kadare, Elegy for Kosovo. Skyhorse Publishing. 2013.
  • Saša Ilić, Lov na ježeve (Hedgehog Hunt). Fabrika knjiga. 2015.
  • Lidija Dimkovska, A Spare Life. Two Lines Press. 2016.
  • Frosina Parmakovska, Višnova hronika (The Sour Cherry Chronicle). Ili-ili. 2014.
  • Qendra Multimedia, New Literature from Kosovo (Literaturë e re nga Kosova). 2012
  • Vlora Nikçi, Kangë popullore erotike (Erotic folk songs). 2019 

Movies

  • Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams (2006), directed by Jasmila Žbanić 
  • Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020), directed by Jasmila Žbanić
  • Honeyland (2019), directed by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov
  • Hive (2021), directed by Blerta Basholli
  • Shok (2015), directed by Jamie Donoughue 
  • The Marriage (2017), directed by Blerta Zeqiri

Film festivals

  • Dokufest. International Documentary and Short Film Festival. Annually. Prizren, Kosovo. 
  • Sarajevo Film Festival. International Film Festival. Annually. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • MakeDox. Creative Documentary Film Festival. Annually. Skopje, Macedonia.
  • Manaki Brothers Film Festival. International Film Festival. Annually. Bitola, Macedonia.

Other literature and theater plays