Ellen Elias-Bursac

Ellen Elias-Bursac translates fiction and non-fiction from Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian. Her translation of Ivana Bodrožić’s novel Sons, Daughters was given the EBRD Literature Prize in 2025. She has taught in the Harvard University Slavic Department, worked in the language services of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

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