Danilo Kiš (1935-1989) was a Yugoslavian author and translator born in what is now Serbia to a Jewish father murdered at Auschwitz and an Eastern Orthodox mother. After his book A Tomb for Boris Davidovich was accused of anti-nationalism he went into self-imposed exile in France. He was awarded the Golden Eagle of the City of Nice and, just before his death in Paris in 1989, American PEN’s Bruno Schulz Prize.
Aleksandar Hemon is the author of
The Lazarus Project, a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He was the recipient of a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Foundation genius grant.