How the Hedgehog Married: and Other Croatian Fairy Tales [Paperback]

Dasha C. Nisula(translator) has taught Russian and Croatian languages, literature, and culture, and is a translator of poetry and short stories from these languages. Her work has appeared inAn Anthology of South Slavic Literatures, the journalsModern Poetry in Translation, Southwestern Review, International Poetry Review, Massachusetts Review,EXILE Quarterly, and two books in translation:Music Is Everything: Selected Poems of Slavko MihalicandYou With Hands More Innocent: Selected Poems of Vesna Parunwith Exile Editions. She is a member of the American Literary Translators Association.Josip Botteri Diniwas born in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1943, and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1968. He has had over a hundred one-man exhibitions in Paris, Milan, Frankfurt, Padua, Toronto, Los Angeles, Ljubljana, Zagreb, Mostar, Split, Dubrovnik, and more. Known for his illustrative paintings and graphics, he also works extensively in stained glass and mosaics. Josip Botteri Dini is a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Split.This collection features a series of “traditional, European fairy tales” heavily inspired by motifs taken from ancient Slavic mythology of pre-Christian Croatia. In response to today;'s Cancel Culture, what a great book that transports us all back to the roots of oral storytelling.