Nenad Velickovic was born in 1962. He is the author of one other novel and three books of short stories as well as numerous TV scripts and radio plays. From 1992 to 1996 he served in the army of Bosnia-Herzegovina. He lives in Sarajevo. Among Celia Hawkesworth's numerous published translations are Ivo Andric's Damned Yard and Other Stories (Dufour, 1992) and The Days of the Consuls (Dufour, 1993), and Dubravka Ugresic's The Culture of Lies (Penn State, 1998) and The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (New Directions, 2002). She is also co-translator of Ugresic's In the Jaws of Life, publish...