Bakić, Asja
Entry updated 22 January 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1982- ) Bosnian poet, translator and author, active from around the turn of the century, initially as a poet; her first collection, Može i kaktus, samo neka bode ["It Can Be a Cactus, as Long as it Pricks"] (coll 2009), is poetry. Some of the tales assembled in Mars (coll 2015; trans Jennifer Zoble 2019), each of which constructed as a task for its protagonist to solve, are in fact set on Mars. Sladostrašce (coll 2020; trans Jennifer Zoble as Sweetlust 2023) continues to irradiate story-structures where topoi out of Fantastika are subjected to a sharp Feminist angle of vision. [JC]
Asja Bakić
born Tuzla, Yugoslavia [now Bosnia and Herzegovina]: 1 January 1982
works (selected)
- Mars (Zagreb, Croatia: Sandorf, 2015) [coll: binding unknown/]
- Mars (New York: Feminist Press at CUNY, 2019) [coll: trans by Jennifer Zoble of the above: pb/]
- Sladostrašce (Zagreb, Croatia: Sandorf, 2020) [coll: binding unknown/]
- Sweetlust (New York: Feminist Press at CUNY, 2023) [coll: trans by Jennifer Zoble of the above: pb/]
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