Vladislav Bajac

His best-known work is his 2008 novel, Hamam Balkanija, for which he won the International Literature Prize Balkanika.

The contemporary timeline is a collection of vignettes in autobiographical first person narration told from Bajac's point of view.

In the original edition it was printed in the Cyrillic script, and people such as Alberto Manguel and Allen Ginsberg appear alongside the author.

The earlier timeline consists of a single story set in the sixteenth century, using omniscient third person narration, featuring the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire and Suleiman the Magnificent.

The book's themes, and its dual structure and narrative styles, raise questions about where identity comes from and how it is shaped by religion and national history.