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Olja Knezevic

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Titograd-Podgorica, Montenegro

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Olja (Olya) Knezevic

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Olja Knezevic was born and raised in Montenegro, but has lived in California, Belgrade, London and Zagreb.

She has an MA in Creative Writing from Birkbeck College, London, and was awarded an Overall Prize for the best MA Creative Writing dissertation of the year 2008. That dissertation grew into the novel ‘Milena & Other Social Reforms’, which ended up being published first in Montenegro, then in Croatia.

In both countries, it was a bestseller, although criticised harshly by the Government of Montenegro and the Government regime’s writers and reviewers. 'Milena' is now available in English.

Besides 'Milena & Other Social Reforms', Olja is the author of two more novels: 'Gospoda Black' (2015) and the award-winning 'Katarina, Velika i Mala' (2 ...more

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Average rating: 3.9 · 578 ratings · 109 reviews · 12 distinct works • Similar authors

	Catherine the Great and the Small 3.92 avg rating — 308 ratings — published 2019 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Freedom: Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Amnesty International (Editor), Desmond Tutu (Foreword), Vered Cohen-Barzilay (Foreword) 3.67 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 2009 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Milena: & Other Social Reforms 4.04 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strada fortunata 3.58 avg rating — 80 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gospođa Black 3.78 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Londonske priče juga 4.43 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Milena & druge drustvene reforme (Croatian Edition) by Olja Knezevic (2014-10-28) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Katharina die Große und die Kleine by Olja Knezevic (Goodreads Author), Elvira Veselinović (translator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Freedom: Short Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Londonske price juga by Olja Knezevic (Goodreads Author), Lana Petkov Zdravković (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Everything's a narcotis (..) everything's addiction. If we look more closely, Coca-Cola becomes a trigger if a persons susceptible. And then there's alcohol.”
― Olja Knezevic, Catherine the Great and the Small

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“But listen: whoever grows up fast, fades fast. A person can wear herself out with worry. So watch your nerves.”
― Olja Knezevic, Catherine the Great and the Small

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“I smoked while they compared booty. Things they took … nail polish, perfume, toilet paper. Things they were given … one-earrings, twenty hangers, torn bras. (Advice to cleaning women: Take everything that your lady gives you and say Thank you. You can leave it on the bus, in the crack.)”
― Lucia Berlin, A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

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“As a rule, never work for friends. Sooner or later they resent you because you know so much about them. Or else you’ll no longer like them, because you do.)”
― Lucia Berlin, A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

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