Essayist and fiction writer Dubravka Ugrešić will take a light tone while talking about the "invisible people" of Europe: the migrations that nobody takes into account when talking about the contemporary “migration crisis” and the people with proper papers migrating within the European Union. In another words, Ugrešić will try to explain what Bulgarians, for instance, are doing in the Netherlands and what the Dutch are doing in Bulgaria.

Dubravka Ugrešić is one of Europe’s most distinctive novelists and essayists. From her early postmodernist excursions, to her elegiac reckonings in fiction and essay with the disintegration of her Yugoslav homeland and the fall of the Berlin Wall, to her more recent writings on popular and literary culture, Ugrešić’s work is marked by a combination of irony, polemic, and compassion. Following degrees in Comparative and Russian Literature, Ugrešić worked for many years at the University of Zagreb’s Institute for Theory of Literature. When war broke out in Yugoslavia in 1991, Ugrešić took a firm anti-war stance, critically dissecting retrograde Croatian and Serbian nationalism. Subjected to prolonged media harassment, she left Croatia in 1993. Her books have been translated into over twenty languages. She is the winner of several major literary prizes, including the Austrian State Prize for European Literature 1998; the Jean Améry Essay Prize for her essayistic work as a whole, 2012; and the Vilenica Prize and Neustadt International Prize for Literature, 2016.

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