28/01 //\ 19:00 //\ Photo Cluster //\ FB-Event
John K. Cox hosted by Maša Dabić
John K. Cox is a professor of East European history at North Dakota State University in Fargo. He earned his PhD at Indiana University in Bloomington in 1995 with a dissertation on the life and work of Edvard Kardelj. He specializes in Balkan intellectual life in the 19th and 20th centuries, esp. on the role of intellectuals under authoritarian movements. His literary translations include books by Biljana Jovanovic, Danilo Kis, Judita Salgo, Miklos Radnoti, Jurij Koch, and Ivan Cankar. In 2021 he received the Literary Translator of the Year Award from the Serbian PEN Centre. He is currently involved in a multi-year translation project of Isidora Sekulic, in addition to his “33: Komsiluk knjiga” project.
Mascha Dabić was born in Sarajevo in 1981. She translates literature from Serbocroatian into German. She studied Translation and Interpreting Studies (English and Russian). She lives in Vienna and has written journalistic pieces on the phenomenon of migration (daStandard.at), works as an interpreter in the asylum and conference sectors, and teaches translation and interpreting (Russian) at the University of Vienna. With her debut novel “Reibungsverluste,” she was nominated by Daniela Strigl for the Franz Tumler Literature Prize and made the Debut shortlist of the Austrian Book Prize 2017; in 2018 she received the City of Vienna Literature Promotion Prize.
The reading will be held in English.
Supported by Bundesministerium für Wohnen, Kunst, Kultur, Medien und Sport, Stadt Wien, Bezirk Margareten, Bezirk Josefstadt, Bezirk Neubau, Photo Cluster, ÖH and Hotel Korotan