Tag Archives: Zarko Radakovic

On Friendship: Recent Thoughts on Žarko’s and my book, Serbian version

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Original HERE And Google Translate’s version here, warts and all: The Book of Friendship View: Found in Translation 29.09.2023. If the explanation for the large number of mutually unintelligible languages on the globe is sought in the Bible and the interpretation … Continue reading

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Žarko Radaković: Co-Author, Catalyst, and Friend

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Books by Žarko Radaković from my Collection Missing: Tübingen, Pogled, Knjige o Muzici (with David Albahari), Putovati, and the new MUBI 68 and Knjiga O Fudbalu Juče je bilo potpisivanje romana Žarka Radakovića. Yesterday was a signing of Žarko Radaković’s … Continue reading

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Zarko Radakovic continues a lifelong conversation with David Albahari

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[translated by Google Translate, edited by me this morning…a remarkable tribute and a conversation that will continue into the future] In Memoriam: David Albahari (1948-2023) After the Death of David Albahari: Unfinished Conversations with an Oldest Friend By: ŽARKO RADAKOVIĆ  … Continue reading

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David Albahari (1948-2023)

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Zarko’s dear, life-long friend, David Albahari has passed on. A few years ago I reviewed two new translations of Albahari’s novel Globetrotter and a book of short stories, Learning Cyrillic for Open Letters Monthly. The review is HERE (an archive … Continue reading

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My Co-Author in Conversations about his Book About Football: Žarko Radaković in Belgrade and Novi Sad

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· Novi Sad, Serbia  · SOFA 2023, bulevar books Thursday the 8th of June, 7pm Žarko Radaković, writer and literary translator, was born in 1947 in Novi Sad. Published books: Tübingen (1990), Knifer (1994, 2018), Repetitions (with Scott Abbott, 1994), Emigration (1997), … Continue reading

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Protests in Belgrade: Now and During My Visit in 1998

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This morning the New York Times reports on a protest in Belgrade, Serbia. Protests in Serbia over back-to-back mass shootings last month ballooned on Saturday into the biggest street demonstrations in the capital, Belgrade, since demonstrators toppled Slobodan Milosevic as Serbia’s president … Continue reading

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Review of our book On Friendship

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Zarko is a major Serbian writer, with a dozen novels, joint works, and a long list of translations. Laguna Press, Serbia’s premiere literary publisher, has published some of these, including our recent book We: On Friendship. Thoughtful reviews continue to … Continue reading

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FOUR HANDS WITHOUT A STEERING WHEEL

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Review of our We: On Friendship, published this month in Zagreb Radaković is one of the authors who, in addition to the basic flow of his work, also turns to other forms of writing, and his books in four hands … Continue reading

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Prose in Two Voices: Žarko Radaković, David Albahari, Scott Abbott, and Peter Handke

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Aleksa Đukanović, PROSE IN TWO VOICES, interview with writer Žarko Radaković, November 5, 2022. Co-writing, is it really possible? “Four-handed writing” is an inadequate term. Because writing is always confinement in a cell and acting alone… It started a long … Continue reading

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Nous sommes embarqués

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The final line of Wim Wenders’ magnificent Der Himmel über Berlin / Wings of Desire serves as the opening line of our announcement: Zarko’s and my book is here. You can buy the book on Amazon’s site and, when Elik … Continue reading

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