Mascha Dabic

Mascha Dabić, born in Sarajevo in 1981, studied translation studies with English and Russian in Innsbruck, Vienna, Edinburgh and St. Petersburg. She worked as a conference interpreter and as an interpreter in asylum and psychotherapy contexts, and taught at the universities of Vienna and Innsbruck. As a literary translator, she translated works from Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian, including texts by Barbi Marković, Svetislav Basara, Dragan Velikić, Damir Ovčina and Goran Ferčec. Her debut novel, “Reibungsverluste,” was shortlisted for the Debut category of the Austrian Book Prize in 2017. In 2018, she received the City of Vienna’s Literature Promotion Award.