Culture/history/travel for @calvertjournal @jutarnjihr @timeoutcroatia. @RoughGuides Poland & Croatia. Author (w.Igor Hofbauer) of Grimizna Laguna/Crimson Quays
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Delighted to reveal that I have just signed a deal with US publisher @SandorfP to write a history of tourism on the eastern Adriatic coast. Provisionally entitled "Adria Blue", it is scheduled to sail into port some time in 2023/24.
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Si queréis saber más sobre este excelente autor bosnio, tristemente fallecido a los 48 años, y sobre su vida y obra, marcadas por el nomadismo, el desarraigo y los excesos, tenéis un avance en este artículo de @jonnbousfield para @stray_satellite: straysatellite.com/bekim/
So any list of 2024's best translated fiction from my neck of the woods would undoubtedly sart with this (trans. Ellen Elias Bursać; publ. @TwoLinesPress)...
Also among 2024's best is Angela Rodel's transltn of a modern Bulgarian classic: Vera Mutafchieva's tale of C15 Ottoman prince Cem and his revolt against brother Bayezid - ingeniously presented as a case file of contemporary witness statements. @SandorfP
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This morning's bombing of Kyiv is a second part of Putin's press-conference from yesterday. Cars and buildings are still burning in 4 districts of the city. The exact number of killed and wounded is not known yet. The sounds of explosions are still ringing in the ears of kyivites
Currently reading: @amm_hunt's book on Britain's monarch-free decade, a time so bubbling with new socio-political ideas that at times it almost seems like a utopian/dystopian science-fiction novel. And the way it suddenly ends (was Restoration so inevitable?) is a story in itself
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Добра ніч, dear friends. Christmas is coming! Take a look at the vertep, a unique #Ukrainian tradition: kyivindependent.com/explaini…. Thank you, @KyivIndependent & @TsurkanKate for this article!
Currently reading: Stu Hennigan's searing, disturbing but empathetic account of poverty and dereliction in Leeds during the 2020 lockdowns. Surely one of the UK's key non-fiction texts of recent years, published by indie trailblazers @Ofmooseandmen
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#Christmas has started in Zagreb, and it's atmospheric #christmasmarket well underway. To celebrate the 2nd advent we've knocked $2 (or local equivalent) off the price of #Croatia's Best (touchscreentravels.com/apps/…) digital travel guide - for a week. Download now!
Time for a commercial break (but I earn royalties from these things so no apologies whatsoever for the self-promotion)
One for lovers of a good #christmasmarket: check out #Tallinn. With its medieval backdrop & nordic atmosphere it rivals any - as detailed in our excellent digital travel guide (touchscreentravels.com/apps/…). For USD$2 (or local equivalent) for a week to celebrate 2nd advent.
Currently reading: anything I can get hold of by Abdulrazak Gurnah. What took me so long? Surely the most deserving of Nobel winners of recent yrs, beautifully evoking a rich East African space, & ably crafting deeply touching decade-spanning epics in the space of 260-300 pages
Electric Dreams at @Tate Modern takes a globe-spanning look at pre-internet electronic art & computer art, including the role played by Zagreb's 60s-70s New Tendencies movt, which brought international artists together as well as nurturing the home-grown.
tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-mo…
Great to dive in to sthing that's been on my must-list for ages. @KeironPim's biog of the lavishly gifted, hyper-productive Austrian-Jewish writer is every bit as engrossing as you would expect, weaving a fascinating picture of the woozy, shape-shifting Europe of the 1920s-30s
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Veteran broadcaster and poet Igor Pomerantsev was a simply wonderful interviewee and is fascinating on everything from being forced to leave the USSR to continuing to run a poetry festival in Ukraine to Brexit screwing up his planned "Austrian" death.
english.radio.cz/igor-pomera…
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The UK has stood side by side with our Ukrainian allies since day one of Putin’s illegal invasion - leading international support, training 50,000 recruits and supplying weapons, drones and other crucial military kit.
We stand with Ukraine.
ALT Image of Ukraine flag. White text: Labour Government announces stepped up support for Ukraine
Zagreb art maverick (and my co-author on graphic travel tale Crimson Quays) Igor Hofbauer's new book Doberman (publ. @Mochvara) brings all his obsessions together in a spectacular series of edgy and frequently grotesque narratives. Nothing else out there quite like it.
