David Albahari

David Albahari, a writer and translator from the former Yugoslavia, is the author of ten collections of short stories and eleven novels in Serbian.

Description of Death won the Ivo Andrić Award, and Bait won the NIN Award.

His work has been translated into sixteen languages, and his latest novel available in English is Leeches (2011). In 1994, he moved with his family to Canada, where he still lives.


Articles by David Albahari

World Voices Festival
Tuesday April 12

Leeches

Now, six years after the fact, I realize things might have gone differently, but back then, on Sunday, March 8, 1998, when it all began, it was impossible to imagine any other way for events to unfold. Also perhaps I made no effort to imagine something different, believed I had no choice, no choice at