The Balkans Start in Vienna: Lecture with Dr. Mascha Dabic

This lecture featured Max Kade Writer-in-Residence, Dr. Mascha Dabić, translator, interpreter, and novelist who has lived in Austria since 1992. Her talk addressed the visibility of Vienna as a multinational and multilingual city from the perspective of Balkan migration. The talk was given in English and followed by a short reading in German.

In 2016, she debuted with her novel Reibungsverluste, in which she tells about one day in the life of an interpreter who works in the office of a psychotherapist for refugees. This novel was nominated for the prestigious Franz-Tumler-Literature Prize and made the short list for the Austrian Bookprize “Debüt.” Her short stories and essays are published in several German/Austrian and Bosnian/Croatian literary magazines.