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Podcast: Otherppl with Brad Listi
Episode: REPLAY: Vesna Maric on War, Political Chaos, Immigration, and Home
Description: Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 696, my conversation with Vesna Maric from March 2021.
Maric was born in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1976. She left Bosnia-Herzegovina at sixteen as part of a convoy of refugees. She went on to work for the BBC World Service and has written for Lonely Planet for over two decades. Vesna is an author of fiction and non-fiction, essays and a variety of journalism. Her memoir, Bluebird, was longlisted for The Orwell Prize.
I spoke with Vesna Maric as she was celebrating the publication of he...