vesna goldsworthy

April 11 at 7:30pm

Vesna Goldsworthy is a memoirist, poet, and novelist who writes in English, her third language. She is the author of seven widely translated books, including the best-selling memoir Chernobyl Strawberries; The Angel of Salonika, a prize-winning poetry collection that was designated the Times Poetry Book of the Year; and the novels Monsieur Ka, inspired by Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, and Gorsky, an updating of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby that was nominated for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her latest book is the novel Iron Curtain: A Love Story. Goldsworthy was born in Belgrade but lives in London, where she worked as a broadcaster and
producer for the BBC World Service and now teaches creative writing at the University of Exeter.

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