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…

- Sasa Stanisic

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…

- Sasa Stanisic

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

- Sasa Stanisic

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…

- Sasa Stanisic

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…

- Sasa Stanisic

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…

- Sasa Stanisic

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…

- Sasa Stanisic

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…

- Sasa Stanisic

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…

- Sasa Stanisic