Ellen Elias-Bursac
Ellen Elias-Bursac has been translating novels and non-fiction by Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian writers for thirty years, including writing by David Albahari, Neda Miranda Blazević Kreitzman, Ivana Bodrozic, Svetlana Broz, Slavenka Drakulic, Dasa Drndić, Djurdja Otrzan, Igor Stiks, Vedrana Rudan, Slobodan Selenić, Antun Soljan, Dubravka Ugresić, Karim Zaimović.
She is president of the American Literary Translators Association.
She has taught at the Harvard Slavic Department, Tufts University, ASU and the New England Friends of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Filozofski fakultet of Zagreb University, and spent over six years at the ex-Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague as a translator/reviser in the English Translation Unit.
Works
Gotz and Meyer, David Albahari
Götz and Meyer, two noncommissioned SS officers, are entrusted with an assignment, “not a big one,” but one that “requires efficiency.” Their task is to transport prisoners from a concentration camp near Belgrade in a hermetically sealed truck, in which they are asphyxiated.
Checkpoint, David Albahari
Fox, Dubravka Ugresic (with David Williams)
The Hotel Tito, Ivana Bodrozic
The Judgment of Richard Richter, Igor Stiks
Translating Evidence and Interpreting Testimony in a War Crimes Tribunal: Working in a Tug of War
Globetrotter, David Albahari
Trieste, Dasa Drndić
Leeches, David Albahari
Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian: A Textbook with Exercises and Basic Grammar , with Ronelle Alexander
Nobody's Home, Dubravka Ugresic
Good People in an Evil Time, Svetlana Broz
Awards and Recognition
- National Translation Award (ALTA), 2006, for English translation of David Albahari's novel Götz and Meyer.
- AATSEEL Award for the Best Translation from a Slavic or East European Language, 1998, for the English translation of David Albahari's Words Are Something Else.
- AATSEEL Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy, 2009, for Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, A Textbook, with Ronelle Alexander.
- Mary Zirin Prize, 2015, Association of Women in Slavic Studies, for Translating Evidence and Interpreting Testimony at a War Crimes Tribunal: Working in a Tug-of-War.
Location
Cambridge, MA
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Category
Fiction & Literature