752. Lejla Kalamujic

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2022

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Lejla Kalamujic is the author of the novel-in-stories Call Me Esteban, available from Sandorf Passage. Translated by Jennifer Zoble. Kalamujic is an award-winning queer writer from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Call Me Esteban received the Edo Budisa literary award in 2016 and it was the Bosnian-Herzegovinian nominee for the European Union Prize for Literature in the same year. Jennifer Zoble translates Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian- and Spanish-language literature. Her translation of Mars by Asja Bakic (Feminist Press, 2019) was selected by Publishers Weekly for the fiction list in its "Best Books 2019" issue. She contributed to the Belgrade Noir anthology (Akashic Books, 2020), and her work has been published in McSweeney's, Lit Hub, Words Without Borders, Washington Square, The Iowa Review, and The Baffler, among others. She's a clinical associate professor in the interdisciplinary Liberal Studies program at NYU. *** 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. Etc. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram YouTube 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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0:31.3	Hello, hey, how you doing? Welcome to The Other People Show. It's a Sunday episode. I'm Brad Listy in Los Angeles. I hope you're okay. Are you okay?
0:46.7	Leila Kalamuich is my guest. She has a new book out on Sandorf passage in translation. It is called Colmy Esteban.
0:57.1	The translation is done by Jennifer Zobel.
1:01.8	Call Me Esteban is a very moving depiction of life in pre and post-war Sarajevo.
1:10.8	Colmy Esteban deals with memory and loss and identity.
1:15.9	And my conversation with Leila Kalamuich marks the third time in the past year or so that I've
1:23.2	talked with an author from Bosnia-Herzegovania.
1:26.8	And it's been an education for me. I feel like this is
1:31.0	like a trilogy now. I had a nice time meeting her and speaking with her from her home in Sarajevo.
1:39.8	That conversation is coming up in just a minute. If you hear in my voice more energy than you normally
1:45.7	do, I don't know if this is any different. I'm trying to be a little bit more energetic because
1:51.2	I was talking to my mother over the holidays and my mom has recently started listening to the show
1:59.2	and she was telling me that I need to pep it up a little bit.
2:06.4	I don't know if that's something that you guys have noticed.
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