Ellen Elias-Bursać

Ellen Elias-Bursać has been translating novels and non-fiction by Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian writers since the 1980s, including writing by David Albahari, Ivana Bodrožić, Ferida Duraković, Miljenko Jergović, Kristian Novak, Robert Perišić, Igor Štiks, Dubravka Ugrešić, Karim Zaimović. ALTA’s National Translation Award was given to her translation of Albahari’s novel Götz and Meyer in 2006. She was given the Mary Zirin Prize by the Association of Women in Slavic Studies in 2015 for her work as a scholar and translator. She served on the board of the American Literary Translators Association 2019–2021.