Conversation with author Dubravka Ugrešić
SEEfest will honor internationally celebrated author, cultural critic, and essayist Dubravka Ugrešić (“The Age of Skin,” “American Fictionary,” “Baba Yaga Laid an Egg”) with this year’s Legacy Award. She is the winner of several prestigious international awards, was the finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2009, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism 2011. Most recently Dubravka Ugrešić was awarded the 2016 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. She lives in Amsterdam. Learn more about Dubravka Ugrešić here.
SEEfest program and activities are supported, in part, by ELMA Foundation for European Movies in America, UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies , the California Arts Council, a state agency; Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture; by a grant from the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill, and with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. We are deeply grateful for their past and current support of our programs. The Dutch film program is supported by Dutch Culture USA of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.