Paula Gordon (Wilmington, Delaware, 1961) translates from Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian into English. She translated the play Otpad by Ljubomir Đurković (Montenegro National Theatre 2003) and is now translating his trilogy of full-length plays, The Greeks.
She is working with Bosnian visual artist Nebojša Šerić “Shoba,” translating a selection of his short stories about growing up in Sarajevo in the 1970s and ’80s, his experiences during the war, and his adventures in the art world. She has translated first-person and critical essays for exhibition catalogs and other publications of arts institutions including the Sarajevo Center for Contemporary Art, the Montenegro Mobil Art Foundation, and the Sarajevo Film Festival. By day she is a medical translator and copyeditor of journal articles, government reports, and research grant applications. She worked closely with lexicographer Svetolik P. Djordjević from 2003 through 2014 as editor of his Serbian- and Croatian-English and English-Serbian medical dictionaries (Jordana Publishing 2009; Jordana Publishing 2014).
