Balkan literature: the best contemporary fiction to add to your reading list
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About this list
New East Digital Archive, 10 Books
A list of the ten best contemporary Balkan literature, by Hannah Weber.
This list was originally published in 2017 and was added to this site over 1 year ago.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5109 | The Ministry Of Pain | Dubravka Ugrešić | 2004 | Croatian | Croatian | |
| 17152 | Hansen’s Children | Ognjen Spahić | 2004 | Montenegrin | Montenegrin | |
| 5689 | Life Begins On Friday | Ioana Pârvulescu | 2009 | Romanian | Romanian | |
| 17152 | Three Elegies For Kosovo | Ismail Kadare | 1998 | Albanian | Albanian | |
| 17152 | The Walnut Mansion | Miljenko Jergović | 2003 | Croatian | Croatian | |
| 17152 | Stork Mountain | Miroslav Penkov | 2016 | Bulgarian | English | |
| 17152 | Dry Season | Gabriela Babnik | 2012 | Unknown | Slovene | |
| 17152 | The Russian Window | Dragan Velikić | 2007 | Unknown | Serbian | |
| 5597 | The Lazarus Project | Aleksandar Hemon | 2008 | Bosnian | English | |
| 1700 | The Hunger Angel | Herta Müller | 2009 | German | German |