Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for LiteratureAs with the rest of her literary career Dubravka Ugresics final work A Muzzle for Witches is uncategorizable. On its surface the book is a conversation with the literary critic Merima Omeragic covering topics such as ampampquotWomen and the Male Perspectiveampampquot ampampquotThe Culture of SelfHarmampampquot and ampampquotThe Melancholy of Vanishing.ampampquot But the book is more than a simple interview Its a roadmap of the literary world exploring the past century and all of its violence and turmoilespecially in Yugoslavia Ugresics birth countryand providing a direction for the future of feminist writing. One of the greatest thinkers of the past hundred years Ugresic was oneofakind who novels and literary essays pushed the bounds of form and content and A Muzzle for Witches offers the chance to see her at her most raw and most playful.