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Edita Mujkic

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Born
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Edita Mujkić is an award-winning author and a National Ambassador for the Refugee Council of Australia.

Originally from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, she has lived in Melbourne, Australia since 1994.

Her first book, Between Before and After, is the winner of several international awards. In the UK, it was the runner-up in the Hunter Davies Lakeland Book of the Year 2023 and was awarded the Bookends Prize for People & Business. In Australia, while writing her memoir, Mujkić won several awards and was shortlisted for others.

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Between Before and After

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The Dry Heart is a story of an unhappy marriage and a study of how a misery can trigger a murder. Dark and psychological, it made me shake my head at the main protagonist. While I think that no woman should ever marry a man whom she doesn’t love and ...more
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Voices in the Evenings is a fragmented portrayal of several people in an Italian village, linked by family connections, friendship or love, in a the post-war period. With elements of both comedy and tragedy, it is a page turning read even though I so ...more
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Auster’s latest, Baumgartner, with the main protagonist a writer, same as in Oracle Night, but this time an older man, is a smooth and compelling read. Once again, about writing and love, about losses and hopes, about memories and projections.
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Auster’s latest, Baumgartner, with the main protagonist a writer, same as in Oracle Night, but this time an older man, is a smooth and compelling read. Once again, about writing and love, about losses and hopes, about memories and projections.
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Oracle Night by Paul Auster
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A story in a story, about love, writing, the illusions we have, the fears we grow, our weaknesses and strengths, the acceptance of pain, mental and physical.
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I picked it up because it’s a translation and set in Rome (I’m a big fan of Italian authors) but I can see now that it has been longlisted for International Booker Prize 2014. The first page made me laugh. And it continued to be fun to read.
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I read Porscia's book in two days—I assume that's how people read thrillers—impatient to learn how the tricky situation of dealing with a toddler diagnosed with a complex autism disorder, during Melbourne Covid lockdowns and working from home, will u ...more
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Beautifully told and supremely illustrated story of two girls who appear different but are in fact very similar and share the love for same things.

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