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Croatian writer (1949–2023)

Dubravka Ugrešić (Croatian pronunciation:[dûbraːʋkaûgreʃit͡ɕ]; 27 March 1949 – 17 March 2023) was a Yugoslav-Croatian and Dutch writer.^[a][2] A graduate of University of Zagreb, she was based in Amsterdam from 1996 and continued to identify as a Yugoslav writer.^[3]

Early life and education

Ugrešić was born on 27 March 1949 in Kutina, Yugoslavia (now Croatia).

She was born into an ethnically mixed family; her mother was an ethnic Bulgarian from Varna.^[4][5] She majored in comparative literature and Russian language at the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Arts, pursuing parallel careers as a scholar and as a writer.

After graduation, she continued to work at the university, at the Institute for Theory of Literature. In 1993, she left Croatia for political reasons. She spent time teaching at European and American universities, including UNC-Chapel Hill, UCLA, Harvard Univer