Lana Bastašić

Lana Bastašić, born in 1986 in Zagreb, Croatia, to Serbian parents, grew up in Bosnia after the break-up of Yugoslavia and most recently lived for many years in Barcelona. She has so far published two collections of stories and one volume of poetry, for which she has been awarded numerous prizes and scholarships.

Bastašić is the editor of the Catalan literary magazine “Carn de cap” and co-founder of “3+3 sisters”, a project that promotes female authors from the Balkans. She was shortlisted for the NIN Award, Serbia’s most prestigious literary prize, for “Uhvati zeca” (published in German as “Fang den Hasen”). In 2020, Bastašić received the European Union Prize for Literature for Bosnia & Herzegovina. /// As of February 3, 2021