ELLEN ELIAS-BURSAĆ

Ellen Elias-Bursać translates fiction and non-fiction from the Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian. In 2006 the novel Götz and Meyer by David Albahari in her translation from the Serbian was given the National Translation Award; her translations and scholarship were recognized with the Mary Zirin Prize by the Association of Women in Slavic Studies in 2015. She is author of Translating Evidence and Interpreting Testimony at a War Crimes Tribunal: Working in a Tug-of-War. She is a past president of the American Literary Translators Association.