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Sydney Writers' Festival: Miss Ex-Yugoslavia
Event

Sydney Writers' Festival: Miss Ex-Yugoslavia


Time & date

3:00pm, 5th May 2018


Location

Seymour Centre View map

PO Box 553,, Broadway, NSW 2007


Tickets

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https://www.swf.org.au/festivals/festival-2018/stella-prize-brilliant-careers/

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About

 

Sofija Stefanovic was born in socialist Belgrade, in the middle of a blackout. With Yugoslavia on the brink of war, her family was torn between the socialist existence they’d always known and the stability of Australia. Miss Ex-Yugoslavia is the funny and dark story of an outsider looking for home – featuring warlords, pet tigers and beauty queens. A storyteller with the Moth, whose writing has appeared in the New York Times, Sofija speaks to Angela Ledgerwood about a distinctive memoir that’s told with great humour and heart.

Book

Miss Ex-Yugoslavia
Unpolished Gem with a touch of Stasiland: a funny, dark and tender memoir about growing up between the lunacy of Yugoslavia’s civil war and suburban Australia.
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