A BookBlast 10x10 Tour LIVE event from Waterstones Nottingham, England (27.09.2018) Feat. Georgia de Chamberet, replacement chair for Susan Curtis, founder-director of Istros Books, in conversation with David Norris who was until recently Head of Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies at the University of Nottingham where he taught Serbian and Croatian studies for almost 40 years. His recent book, 'Haunted Serbia: Representations of History and War in the Literary Imagination,' analyzes Serbian prose from the 1980s dedicated to the Second World War, particularly the use of ghosts and other uncanny motifs to represent times of instability and transition. AND Translator, Christina Pribićević-Zorić, who worked for 20 years as a broadcaster at the English Language Service, Radio Belgrade, the BBC in London, and for The Hague at the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia. She has translated over 35 translated works of fiction and non-fiction from Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian and French into English. Discussion context: Yugoslavia was invaded and dismembered in 1941. Germany annexed northern Slovenia and occupied Serbia, and greatly influenced the fascist puppet state of Croatia ruled by the Ustashe. Mussolini's Italy gained the remainder of Slovenia, Kosovo, and sections of the coastal Dalmatia region and Montenegro. Hungary occupied Vojvodina in northern Serbia. The Holocaust in South-East Europe involved not only the genocide of Jews, but also that of Serbs, Romani (gypsies) and anti-Fascist Croatians. Topics: What is instrinsically "Balkan"? What are perceptions of the Balkans? How does the image emerge from the region's literature? Can one answer the existence of evil? The difference between history (statistics) and literature: the detail fiction gives us makes it more alive. Trauma and war are beyond understanding. Ghosts in literature (memories). Is there hope? Titles discussed: DOPPELGANGER by Daša Drndić & THE HOUSE OF REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING by Filip David – available from www.istrosbooks.com Presented by Georgia de Chamberet | Produced by Ben Fiagbe.

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