Slavenka Drakulic

Slavenka Drakulic (born 1949 in Croatia) is a Croatian writer and journalist. Her works include the novels “Frida” (2007), about Frida Kahlo, “Dora and the Minotaur” (2016), about Dora Maar, and “Mileva Einstein or The Theory of Loneliness” (2018). In 2005, she received the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding for “Nobody Was There: War Crimes in the Balkans on Trial.” In 2019, she and her husband jointly received the Stefan Heym Prize from the city of Chemnitz.