Dubravka Ugresic’s novella “Štefica Cvek in the Jaws of Life” opens this new edition of one of her most beloved collections, Lend Me Your Character. The opening novella is perfectly wry and witty, and the story’s sewing guide motif inspired my cover concept here.
About Dubravka Ugresic: She’s the author of seven works of fiction, including The Museum of Unconditional Surrender and Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, along with six collections of essays, including Thank You for Not Reading and Karaoke Culture, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. She has won, or been shortlisted for, more than a dozen prizes, including the NIN Award, Austrian State Prize for European Literature, Heinrich Mann Prize, Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Man Booker International Prize, and the James Tiptree Jr. Award. In 2016, she received the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (the “American Nobel”), which is when I met her. I’m grateful for that meeting and am honored to have designed several covers for her works now.
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