Vesna Goldsworthy

Vesna Goldsworthy FRSL ( Bjelogrlic, , pronounced: Byelogerlitch), is a Serbian writer and poet. She is from Belgrade and obtained her BA in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from Belgrade University in 1985. She has lived in England since 1986. Goldsworthy became a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Exeter in 2017. She previously worked at Kingston University where she was Director of the Centre for Suburban Studies. Goldsworthy is a Professor Emeritus of the School of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.

Her books include ''Inventing Ruritania'' (1998), the memoir ''Chernobyl Strawberries'' (2005), and a collection of poems ''The Angel of Salonika'' (2011). Her first novel, ''Gorsky'', which updated the story of ''The Great Gatsby'', was published in 2015. Her second novel, ''Monsieur Ka'', which is a development of the story of ''Anna Karenina'', was published in 2018. Goldsworthy published her third novel ''Iron Curtain: a love story'' in 2022. Provided by Wikipedia