By changing the way I experienced things, even just involving different details than in reality, I often felt I was betraying the past and playing an….

Dealing with all the questions once the book is out and unchangeable, forces you to permanently give opinions about - in this case - sensible, challe….

A book is not only written - after it's finished it starts writing you, the writer. You become its notebook, its sheet of paper on which it forces yo….

I also did a great amount of writing while doing research. It gave me the opportunity to meet and talk to people other than family, but also to explo….

Instead of giving it [war] a rest I continued pursuing more research, talking to more people on the subject as if I was to please this aftermath of t….

The reason for writing that essay was less a personal agenda than an attempt to explain my unease with the general label of "immigrant literature" af….

It is a bit more challenging for the simple fact that now the stories I am writing are relying more on my imagination than on facts, more on research….

Something as radical as a war can only be understood (if at all) through the collaboration of journalists, academia, artists and, of course, people..

It just seemed to me so utterly wrong to credit someone's work just for the fact that this someone migrated from one place to another. We all move. W….

Europe is not becoming more unified - well, yes, on paper - but not as long as the criteria for so many things (import regulations, border control, v….

Writing about a war will always be political writing, no matter what amount of hermetical hide-and-seek or aesthetical operations are involved..

Regarding fiction, our concern shouldn't be the author's origin (and of course I am forgetting the sales people right here), because that is actually….

Never too late to learn a language. And the good literature to come with it..

By trying to give an artistic approach through my book I stepped unwillingly into other fields. Like a dentist being asked about a throat ache on a m….

Given that the label "immigrant literature" is already established, unavoidable for anyone with a migrant background and used in any given context, I….

For example, an author whose parents fled a war but he himself was born in the country where they fled to, and that is where he went to school and co….

I just feel much more secure about whatever I write if I stand with one foot in reality - meaning if the stories I write about have a core of "this a….

FAQ regarding my book were not about my use of commas or how the images went berserk, but about the political situation in Bosnia, about guilt and sh….

It can stand in the way of narration in cases where we want the protagonist to actually go through some kind of catharsis while our own (non-fictiona….