Vesna Maric

Vesna Maric was born in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1976 and left at sixteen as part of a convoy of refugees during the Bosnian War, eventually settling in the UK where she was granted refugee status after four years. She worked for the BBC World Service, writes Lonely Planet travel guides, translates literary fiction and non-fiction from Croatian to English, and contributes journalism to publications like The Guardian. Her memoir Bluebird was published by Granta in 2009 and longlisted for The Orwell Prize, while her first novel, The President Shop, came out in 2021 from Sandorf Passage.[1][2][5]