Slavenka Drakulić: Mramorna koža
Slavenka Drakulić: Marble Skin

Summary/Abstract: Slavenka Drakulić (born 1949 in Rijeka) is a prominent Croatian writer and journalist who currently lives in Sweden. She studied comparative literature and sociology at the University of Zagreb in the 1970s; in the 1980s, she began collaborating with local magazines such as *Start* and *Danas*, contributing primarily articles with feminist themes. In the early 1990s, following a smear campaign by nationalist circles surrounding President Franjo Tuđman and various threats, she left Croatia for political reasons. She has collaborated with a number of major European newspapers (e.g., *La Stampa*, *Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung*, *The Nation*, *Dagens Nyheter*). As an author, she focuses particularly on the period of armed conflict in the former Yugoslavia. In 2006, her book of reportage *They Would Never Hurt a Fly* (*Oni ne bi ni mrava zgazili*, 2003) was published in Czech; it contains profiles of nine war criminals brought before the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague, a profile of a witness who was not afraid to speak out, and four essays on Balkan violence. A collection of her essays from the years 1990–1996 was also published in Czech that same year under the title *How We Survived Communism*. The excerpt provided here comes from the novel *Marble Skin* (*Mramorna koža*), which was published in Zagreb in 1989.

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