In this captivating and best-selling memoir, Vesna Goldsworthy tells the story of herself, her family, and her early life in her lost country.
Author: Vesna Goldsworthy
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- In grade school we called these 'Chernobyl Strawberries.'
- Chernobyl Strawberries is to be published in German as “Heimweh nach Nirgendwo” by Deuticke.
- 'Chernobyl Strawberries' is an extraordinary book, one that stays etched in our mind for the rest of our lives. It is a moving story about the life of, first a bright kid, then a talented young poet and a top student at a major East European university, who met and married a talented and handsome young man from a famous West European family.
Chernobyl Strawberries. A MEMOIR Vesna Goldsworthy. The Beginnings: I left an Entire World Behind. In 1986 – the year of Chernobyl and the spring before the summer of my move to England – the smell of strawberries seemed headier than ever. I was twenty-four.
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
ISBN: 9781908524485
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 256
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'Exceptional. If there has been a more honest, calm, and profoundly moving memoir written in the last few years, then I've missed it.'—Times Literary Supplement How would you make sense of your life if you thought it might end tomorrow? In this captivating and best-selling memoir, Vesna Goldsworthy tells the story of herself, her family, and her early life in her lost country. There follows marriage, a move to England, and a successful media and academic career, then a cancer diagnosis and its unresolved consequences. A profoundly moving, comic, and original account by a stunning literary talent.Vesna Goldsworthy (née Bjelogrlić) is a Serbian writer and poet. She is from Belgrade and obtained her BA in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from Belgrade University in 1985. She has lived in England since 1986.
Currently on the staff of Exeter University, she previously worked at Kingston University where she was Director of the Centre for Suburban Studies,[1] and the University of East Anglia.
Her books include Inventing Ruritania (1998), the memoir Chernobyl Strawberries (2005),[2] and a collection of poems The Angel of Salonika (2011).[3] Her first novel Gorsky, which updated the story of The Great Gatsby, was published in 2015.[4] Her second novel, Monsieur Ka, which is a development of the story of Anna Karenina, was published in 2018.[5]
Award[edit]
Goldsworthy won the Crashaw Prize in 2011.[6]
Bibliography[edit]
- Inventing Ruritania: The Imperialism of the Imagination, Yale University Press, 1998, ISBN978-0300073126
- Chernobyl Strawberries, Atlantic Books, 2005, ISBN978-1843544142
- The Angel of Salonika, Salt Publishing, 2011, ISBN978-1844718788
- Gorsky, The Overlook Press, 2015, ISBN978-1468312232
- Monsieur Ka, Chatto and Windus, 2018, ISBN978-1784741181
BBC appearances[edit]
Goldsworthy formerly worked for the BBC Serbian Service as a journalist.In 2010, she presented a BBC Radio 4 programme on finding one's voice in a foreign land.In 2017 she was a guest on BBC Radio 3´s Private Passions.[7]
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References[edit]
- ^'Pioneering research centre opens net curtains on suburban studies'. Kingston University. Retrieved 2019-01-11.
- ^Lacey. 'Review: Chernobyl Strawberries by Vesna Goldsworthy | Books'. The Guardian. Retrieved 2017-11-04.
- ^Rees, J. 'A writer's life: Vesna Goldsworthy'. Telegraph. Retrieved 2017-11-04.
- ^Vesna Goldsworthy: 'I started from Gatsby as a Greek dramatist starts from Antigone'
- ^Feigel, Lara (2018-04-06). 'Monsieur Ka by Vesna Goldsworthy review – a deft continuation of Anna Karenina'. the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
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