"I am a writer from the Balkan Fringe, a part of Europe which has long been notorious exclusively for news of human wickedness -- armed conflicts, civil wars, ethnic cleansing, and so on."
"Ja sam pisac s ruba Balkana, dijela Evrope koji je dugo bio ozloglašen isključivo po vijestima o ljudskim grijesima -- oružanim sukobima, građanskim ratovima, etničkom čišćenju i tako dalje".