Ellen Elias-Bursać

Ellen Elias-Bursać translates fiction and non-fiction from the Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian. In 2006 the novel Götz and Meyer by David Albahari in her translation from the Serbian was given the National Translation Award. She is author of Translating Evidence and Interpreting Testimony at a War Crimes Tribunal: Working in a Tug-of-War. Her work as a translator and scholar was recognized with the Mary Zirin Prize by the Association of Women in Slavic Studies in 2015. She is a past president of the American Literary Translators Association.