Bücher von Vesna Goldsworthy

VESNA GOLDSWORTHY left Yugoslavia in 1986 to marry an Englishman she had met at the Karl Marx Institute in Bulgaria two years earlier. Since arriving in England she has worked in publishing and for the BBC World Service. Her first book, Inventing Ruritania, a study of the 'Wild East' of Europe in literature and film was published to broad critical acclaim. She is currently Senior Lecturer in English at Kingston University and is Director of Kingston's Centre for Suburban Studies, which she founded in 2004. She lives in West London with her husband and young son. Chernobyl Strawberries was published by Atlantic in 2005.