Depicting the atrocities of the 20th century, she won international acclaim for writing that was ‘often brutal, but at the same time beautiful’
Acclaimed Croatian novelist and playwright Daša Drndić, who confronted the atrocities of the 20th century in her writing, has died aged 71, her UK publisher has said.
Drndić had been living with cancer for almost two years, and died on Tuesday night in Rijeka, her publisher MacLehose Press confirmed. Associate publisher Katharina Bielenberg called Drndić’s writing “viscerally angry and often brutal, but at the same time beautiful and entirely human”.
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