books

Reading through the pandemic

Libraries in Kosovo have suffered badly in 2020 – but bookshops are doing better than ever, with readers looking to literature for self-help and comforting stories.

Pan-Balkan textbook misrepresents Kosovo’s recent past

The 'Joint History Project' is an attempt to provide educators with a multi-perspective textbook on Balkan history, but its presentation of events in Kosovo omits key incidents, while many that are reported are presented superficially, inaccurately or with a pro-Serbian bias.

How literature makes us better people

Literature has the power to erase artificial boundaries and create deeper cultural connections between people, something that is imperative in the fragmented social landscape of the Balkans.

In their own voices

Ten survivors of sexual violence tell their stories, revealing truths about Kosovo society and how the NATO war affected civilians on the ground.

A messy homecoming: Pajtim Statovci’s ‘My Cat Yugoslavia’

The debut novel of the Finnish-Kosovar writer Pajtim Statovci is a heartfelt coming of age story about a queer immigrant, but stumbles when depicting the hardship of life in Kosovo.