{"id":20569,"date":"2025-12-15T13:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T13:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/?page_id=20569"},"modified":"2025-12-16T15:37:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:37:28","slug":"biografija-dase-drndic-drndic-dasas-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/biografija-dase-drndic-drndic-dasas-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography of Da\u0161a Drndi\u0107 (1946\u20132018)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"520\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/17-dasa-4-520x650.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/17-dasa-4-520x650.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/17-dasa-4-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/17-dasa-4-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/17-dasa-4-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/17-dasa-4-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/17-dasa-4-700x875.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/17-dasa-4-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Da\u0161a Drndi\u0107 was a distinguished writer, translator, and university professor. She earned her degree in English language and literature from the University of Belgrade, and later completed graduate studies in dramaturgy at Southern Illinois University in the United States. In the 1990s, she left Belgrade and settled in Rijeka, Croatia, where she obtained her Ph.D. in philosophy and became a professor in the English Department, teaching courses on modern British literature, Anglo-American modern drama, and creative writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between 1995 and 1997, Drndi\u0107 lived in Canada before returning to Croatia, where she published&nbsp;<em>Marija Cz\u0119stohowska jo\u0161 uvijek roni suze ili Umiranje u Torontu<\/em>&nbsp;(<em>Maria Cz\u0119stohowska Still Shedding Tears or Dying in Toronto<\/em>, 1997) and&nbsp;<em>Canzone di Guerra<\/em>&nbsp;(1998). Both novels explore themes of migration, displacement, and the fragile nature of identity, as well as the tension between old and new worlds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her internationally acclaimed novel&nbsp;<em>Belladonna<\/em>&nbsp;(2012) centers on Andreas Ban, a retired psychologist and writer living alone on the Croatian coast. Aging and ailing, Ban sifts through fragments of his life\u2014his memories, medical files, books, and the ruins of history\u2014reflecting on the Second World War, the dissolution of Yugoslavia, and the erosion of personal and collective memory. Drndi\u0107\u2019s writing blends historical reflection with unflinching irony and moral clarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Across thirteen novels, many of which have been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Hungarian, Polish, Slovenian, Finnish, Albanian, and Macedonian Da\u0161a examined how history\u2014especially its silences\u2014shapes human lives. Her recurring motifs include the repetition of historical trauma, the persistence of memory, and the way private and collective histories intertwine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cMemories die as soon as they are plucked from their surroundings; they burst, lose color, lose suppleness, stiffen like corpses. The past is riddled with holes. Souvenirs can\u2019t help here. Everything must be thrown away. Everything. And perhaps everyone as well.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<em>Belladonna<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Da\u0161a Drndi\u0107 was a distinguished writer, translator, and university professor. She earned her degree in English language and literature from the University of Belgrade, and later completed graduate studies in dramaturgy at Southern Illinois University in the United States. 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