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The Balkans have been so troubled by violence and misunderstanding that we have the verb "balkanize," meaning to break up into smaller, warring components. While some of the region's artists and thinkers have invariably fallen into nationalistic tendencies, the twenty-two prominent authors represented here, from the erstwhile Yugoslavia and its neighbors Albania and Bulgaria, have chosen to attempt to bridge these divides.
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RICHARD SWARTZ was for decades a correspondent in southeastern Europe for the Stockholm daily Svenska Dagbladet. He is the author of numerous books, including the novel A House in Istria (published in English by New Directions in 2007), Room Service: Reports from Eastern Europe (New Press, 1998), and Addressbuch (Hanser, 2005).
The Balkans have been so troubled by violence and misunderstanding that we have the verb "balkanize," meaning to break up into smaller, warring components. While some of the region's artists and thinkers have invariably fallen into nationalistic tendencies, the twenty-two prominent authors represented here, from the erstwhile Yugoslavia and its neighbors Albania and Bulgaria, have chosen to attempt to bridge these divides.
