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INTERVIEW: Tatjana Jambrišak
Tatjana Jambrišak
Tatjana Jambrišak was born in 1965 in Zagreb. She studied at the University of Zagreb, graduating in English and German Language and Literature. She is a member of the Croatian Writers’ Society, and her membership of the Croatian Literary Translator's Association is pending.
She has been publishing stories in various literary magazines and collections since 1989. Three of her pieces (Spirit of the New World, Red and Black and No Greater Fun, Ladies) have been awarded the annual national SF award SFERA. Her SF stories were collected and published in 2003, while the "triblogogy", a collection of poems (Dream Letters, awarded), short stories (Never an Ex) and squabbles on gender chitchat (Blog Given) was published in 2007. A further collection of verse and tales, Shine, appeared in 2009. Her stories have also been translated into Spanish and English.
Jambrišak also reviews stories by Croatian authors and has edited various collections. Her 3D computer art illustrations, available at www.tatjana.ws, and accompanied by short SF, F and horror texts, also received a SFERA award in 2001, and she has participated in several international competitions and exhibitions.
For twenty years she has been editing and translating short stories, comics, journalistic texts, monographs, web pages, tourist guides, text books, and business and legal documents. Among her numerous literary translations are The Road and Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, Olive Kitteridge, Amy and Isabelle and Abide with Me by Elizabeth Strout, From Hell by Alan Moore and Maus by Art Spiegelman.