Istros Conversations

Author and film-maker Goran Vojnović speaks about his new novel, 'Yugoslavia, My Fatherland', which follows the story of a young man determined to find his missing father and discover the truth about his involvement in the wars of the 1990s.

Author, journalist and activist, Andrej Nikolaidis talks to Rosie Goldsmith about his new novel, Till Kingdom Come. #Transaltions #Montenegro #Balkans

Macedonian writer Aleksandar Prokopiev spoke with translator Nathan Jeffers about his new book 'Homonculus', out now at Istros Books.

This conversation was held over Skype, so any sounds in the background are the authentic murmurings of Skopje in the early evening.

In April this year, Danilo Kiš became the first writer from south-east Europe to have his work published as a Penguin Modern Classic. 'The Encyclopedia of the Dead' is Kiš's last published book, and has been revised and introduced by Mark Thompson, whose biography of Kiš - Birth Cerfificate - was published by Cornell University Press in 2013. Thompson gives us an introduction to the life and career of this last great Yugoslav writer, and also some insight into the fascinating process of editing and fine-tuning the original translation.

Vladislav Bajac talks with translator Nathan Jeffers about his publishing house, Geopoetika, and its role in spreading Serbian literature abroad and publishing international classics in Serbia.

Evald Flisar talks to translator Nathan Jeffers about writing, travelling, and his relationship with language and identity.

Roger James Elsgood from Art and Adventure speaks to author Aleksandar Gatalica about the translation of his epic best-selling novel, 'The Great War', as well as the art of translation in general, working with Ancient Greek texts and how literature can cross cultural and geographical borders. #WW1 #translation #literature #Serbia #EasternFront

Deputy Director of Communications, Larry Sherwin in conversation with Serbian author Aleksandar Gatalica at the EBRD, London. A Remembrance Day book launch for a unique and accomplished novel which provides a new perspective on the First World War; peopled with a colourful array of characters both real and fictional from the Eastern as well as the Western Front.

A British Library seminar with Sir Hew Strachan and Aleksandar Gatalica

Book launch event of 'What Does Europe Want? The Union and its Discontents'

Despite the fact that the European Union faces the biggest crisis since its foundation, on July 1st, 2013, a new state joined the club. For the foreseeable future, Croatia will probably be the last to join; at the same time creating a barrier between the once connected states of the Balkans. Paraphrasing Freud’s famous question - ‘What does a woman want?’ - one of the greatest European philosophers of our day, Slavoj Žižek, joins forces with the young Croatian philosopher, Srećko Horvat, to examine the burning question ‘What does Europe want?’.