Dženana Vucic

Dženana Vucic is a Bosnian-Australian writer currently based in Berlin. Her essays and poetry have been published in Overland, Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings, Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite and others. She has been awarded a 2022 Marten Bequest and the 2022 Peter Blazey Fellowship to work on an autotheoretical novel.

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The Commute Essay: Dženana Vucicon Living Between

Migratory Flights 

Living between Bosnia, Berlin and Melbourne/Naarm, Dženana Vucic reflects on the parallels between the migratory flights of birds such as the bar-tailed godwit and the flyways that have mapped her own life’s journey.

Aug. 2023 • •
Review: Dženana Vucicon Saša Stanišić
  • Where You Come From by Saša Stanišić (trans. Damion Searls) Jonathan Cape/Penguin Australia
    368pp
    Published November 2021
    ISBN: 9781787333857

Now and Then

Stanišić’s books play with time as much as they play with fantasy, which are more entangled than one might suspect, but perhaps understandably so for someone like Stanišić, or someone like me, that is to say: children born into Yugoslavia and made refugees by the genocidal war that followed its fracturing.

May. 2022 • •