696. Vesna Maric

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2021

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Vesna Maric is the author of the debut novel The President Shop (Sandorf Passage). Maric was born in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1976. She left the country at sixteen as part of a convoy of refugees bound for the Lake District in England. She attended University College London and later went on to work for the BBC World Service. She now writes Lonely Planet travel guides, translates literary fiction and non-fiction from Croatian into English, and writes a variety of journalism for publications including the Guardian. Vesna has collaborated with various artists, including Jane and Louise Wilson, and on art projects at the Tate Modern's Who Are We? project. Her memoir, Bluebird, was published by Granta in 2009, and was longlisted for The Orwell Prize. She lives in Madrid. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Life. Death. Etc. Support the show on Patreon Merch www.otherppl.com @otherppl Instagram Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.7	Hey, how are you?
0:36.3	Welcome to the Other People program.
0:55.7	I'm Brad Listy. It's good to be with you. I am in Los Angeles. I hope you're okay out there wherever you happen to be. I have a great show for you today. Vezna Merich is my guest. She has a debut novel out on Sandorf Passage. It is called the President Shop. Sandorf Passage, in case you're not aware of it, publishes work that is born from displacement and movement.
1:04.3	Its mission is to help articulate what it means to live in a globalized world, and it is home to writing that is
1:12.5	inspired by conflict zones and the dangers of human complacency.
1:20.4	So Vezna Marech is originally from Mostar, a city in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and her debut debut memoir, Bluebird, was published back in 2009 to critical acclaim.
1:32.2	It was long listed for the Orwell Prize.
1:36.3	And Vezna is, you know, she left Bosnia and Herzegovina at the age of 16, which you're
1:42.8	going to hear us talk about in just a bit.
1:45.5	She left the country of her birth on a convoy of refugees that was headed for the Lake District in England,
1:53.0	where she would go on to spend the next several years of her life, getting her education.
1:58.6	She studied at University College in London and later worked for the BBC World
2:04.1	Service. In addition to publishing her own books, she also writes Lonely Planet Travel
2:12.6	Guides and works as a literary translator and a freelance journalist. And when we talked, just a few days ago,
2:19.7	she was at home in Madrid, where she currently lives.
2:24.5	And I really loved her book, and I loved meeting her.
2:27.6	The President Shop, it's a hard book to describe.
2:30.8	I struggle to capture it in just a few words.
2:34.5	It reads like a kind of fable about what it's like to grow up,
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