Trafika Europe 3 - Latvian Sojourn

Kafka’s Knife (six poems)

Dorta Jagić

Dorta Jagić was born in Sinj, Croatia in 1974, and graduated from the Jesuit Philosophy University in Zagreb with a degree in philosophy and religious culture. She has published poetry, stories and criticism widely, and translates from German and English.

Jagić is prized in Croatia for taking innovative approaches toward a new sensibility in Croatian poetry. She has received several awards including The Balkan Grand Prize for Poetry, in Romania, and the European Poet of Freedom Award, in Poland. We’ve translated a set of poems here from Kafka's knife , her latest collection containing portraits and sketches of famous Victorian women pioneers, eccentrics, missionaries and adventuresses.

Translated from Croatian by Nikola Tutek with Damir Šodan , edited by Andrew Singer.

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