Ena Selimović is a writer and translator who works from Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian (BCMS) into English. In 2020 she was awarded the American Literary Translators Association Travel Fellowship for her translation of Maša Kolanović’s Sloboština Barbie (Underground Barbie). Currently she is an ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow and associate research scholar at Yale University.
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I first came across Maša Kolanović’s illustrated novel, Sloboština Barbie (Underground Barbie), written in Croatian and published by VBZ in 2008, as I comp…