About
Snezana Bukal was born in Belgrade in 1957. In her family different ideologies, confessions and nationalities were as natural as it should be. Her grandfather, an orthodox priest, and her other grandfather, an atheistic farmer, put the world around her in a perspective long before she knew what perspective meant. In 1974, while graduating Gymnasium, at the age of 17, she was awarded with the “October Price of City of Belgrade” for collection of poems in manuscript.
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In 1982 she graduated Comparative Literature and Theory of Literature at University of Belgrade. In the following decade she regularly published short stories. This resulted in collection of stories published in 1986 (Tamna strana, Matica srpska, 1986) and rewarded with the federal price for the best debutante book of the year. In the following year Bukal completed a second collection of stories (Cuvarkuca, Manufaktura snova, 1994) which was not published as scheduled due to the war.
In the same period she also translated into Serbo-Croatian R.L.Stevenson’s “The Wrecker” (Olupina, Rad, Beograd1989) and “After the Race” and “Mr. Duffy” from James Joice’s “The Dubliners” (Dablinci, Haos, Beograd 1992).
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Snezana now lives on the historical island Korcula, where she's a member of the Croatian Writers Society.
