Ena Selimović

Writer and translator who works from Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian (BCMS) into English. In 2020, she was awarded the American Literary Translators Association Travel Fellowship. In 2021-22 she was an ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow and Associate Research Scholar in the Program in American Studies and in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. She received a 2023 Literature Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts to translate Đurđa Knežević’s novel Vanilla Ice Cream.

That year, the Los Angeles Review of Books, in partnership with Yefe Nof, awarded her a translation residency, allowing her to work on Marina Gudelj’s Phantom Pain. Her translation of Tatjana Gromača’s novella Crnac (Black) won Trafika Europe’s Prize for Prose in 2025. She holds a PhD in comparative literature from Washington University in St. Louis and an MPhil in comparative literature from Trinity College Dublin. She is a founding member of the Berkeley-Stanford chapter of the New Yugoslav Studies Association.