We’d left our green umbrella in the trunk of the Taurus, but we didn’t feel like going back.

About the Author

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SEMEZDIN MEHMEDINOVIĆ is a Bosnian writer. When the Bosnian War broke out in 1992, Mehmedinović published an early version of Sarajevo Blues and, with a group of friends, founded the weekly political magazine BH Dani (Days), a voice for democracy and pluralism in times of genocide. In 1996, after the end of the Siege of Sarajevo, Mehmedinović emigrated to the United States with his family and lived in the D.C. area for more than twenty years. He now lives in Sarajevo.

CELIA HAWKESWORTH has translated nearly forty books from the Serbo-Croatian, by authors including Ivo Andrić, Dubravka Ugrešić, and Daša Drndić. Her translation of Ivo Andrić’s Omer Pasha Latas won the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize in 2019, and her translation of Daša Drndić’s EEG won the Best Translated Book Award in 2020. She lives in Oxfordshire, England.