| Date | Time | Location |
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| Thursday, February 2, 2012 | 2:00PM - 6:00PM | Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place |
Dragica Rajčić was born in Split, in former Yugoslavia, in 1959. After a short stay in Brisbane, Australia, Rajčić relocated with her young family to St. Gallen, Switzerland in 1978. During the ensuing ten years, she was employed in a series of manual labour and service sector jobs such as cleaning woman,waitress, and homeworker. Her first collection of poetry in German Halbgedichte einer Gastfrau was widely reviewed and brought her instant recognition as a so-called immigrant writer. (The term “Gastfrau” is an elegant play on words exposing the hypocrisy behind the euphemistically-termed
Gastarbeiterliteratur, “the literature of guest workers”.)
After Rajčić’s return to her Croatian residence in Kaštel Stari in 1988, she founded the literary journal Glas Kastela and worked as a journalist during the months leading up to the outbreak of the war. In 1991, she escaped the war-torn country and returned to St. Gallen.
Since then, Dragica Rajčić has published four poetry collections (including short prose) and has written two theatre plays. Her most recent publication is entitled Warten auf Broch. Text über Text (Innsbruck: Studienverlag, 2011). Rajčić continues to work as a journalist and newspaper editor, while
doing youth work and offering creative writings seminars.
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