Fri Nov 6 · 7:00pm
Ellen Elias-Bursać with Jim Hicks
Translator Ellen Elias-Bursać discusses Miljenko Jergović’s Inshallah, Madonna, Inshallah, which she translated with Mirza Purić: nineteen stories imagining what inspired the Bosnian folk songs of the author’s Sarajevo childhood. Jergović won the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize for Sarajevo Marlboro. Elias-Bursać, who taught in Harvard’s Slavic department, is joined by translator Jim Hicks, former executive editor of the Massachusetts Review. Part of the Transnational Literature Series.