Contributor

Spomenka Štimec

Contributor

Spomenka Štimec

Spomenka Štimec is a leading figure in the small but vibrant world of Esperanto literature. Active in Esperanto culture since her youth, she has authored dozens of works in Esperanto and Croatian, including novels, short stories, travelogs, plays, and textbooks, and has taught Esperanto language and culture in many countries....

Her work has been translated into a number of languages, including French, German, Icelandic, Swedish, Chinese, and Japanese. A recipient of the prestigious Franz Alois Meiners Prize (FAME-premio, 1994), she has been a member of the Academy of Esperanto and secretary of the Esperanto Writers’ Association. She lives in Croatia.

First Read—From “Croatian War Nocturnal”

By Spomenka Štimec

Spomenka Štimec’s Croatian War Nocturnal, translated from the Esperanto by Sebastian Schulman and published by Phoneme Media, is a fictionalized memoir of the wars in former Yugoslavia…

Translated by Sebastian Schulman

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Articles by Spomenka Štimec

First Read—From “Croatian War Nocturnal”