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Slavenka Drakulić (born July 4, 1949) is a Croatian novelist and non-fiction writer who lives in Sweden. Drakulić was born in Rijeka, PR Croatia, on July 4, 1949. She graduated in comparative literature and sociology from the University in Zagreb in 1976. From 1982 to 1992, she was a staff writer for the ''Start'' bi-weekly newspaper and news weekly ''Danas'' (both in Zagreb), writing mainly on feminist issues. ==Biography== Drakulić temporarily left Croatia for Sweden in the early 1990s for political reasons. A notorious unsigned 1992 ''Globus'' article (Slaven Letica, a known sociologist, former advisor to President Franjo Tudjman and writer, subsequently admitted to being its author) accused five Croatian female writers, Drakulić included, of being "witches" and of "raping" Croatia. According to Letica, these writers failed to take a definitive stance against rape as a planned military tactic by Bosnian Serb forces against Croats, and rather treated it in feminist fashion, as crimes of "unidentified males" against women. Soon after the publication, Drakulić started to receive telephone threats; her property was also vandalized. Finding little or no support from her erstwhile friends and colleagues, she decided to leave Croatia. Drakulić has written for various newspapers and magazines in many different languages, including ''The Nation'', ''La Stampa'', ''Dagens Nyheter'', ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'', ''Eurozine'', and ''Politiken''. Her noted recent works relate to the Yugoslav wars. ''As If I Am Not There'' is about crimes against women in the Bosnian War, while ''They Would Never Hurt a Fly'' is a book in which she also analyzed her experience overseeing the proceedings and the inmates of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague. Both books touch on the same issues that caused her wartime emigration from the home country. She also wrote "How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed" which is the non-fiction account of Drakulic's life under communism. Her 2008 novel, ''Frida's Bed'', is based on a biography of a Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. Her latest book of essays ''A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism: Fables from a Mouse, a Parrot, a Bear, a Cat, a Mole, a Pig, a Dog, & a Raven'' was published in February 2011 in the US by Penguin. Drakulić lives in Stockholm and Zagreb. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Slavenka Drakulić」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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