Robert Wilton and Elizabeth Gowing with their new book
Last night Kosovo Embassy in London has hosted the launch of the new book by Robert Wilton and Elizabeth Gowing, “No Man’s Lands: 8 extraordinary women in Balkan history”.
A journey through two centuries of Balkan history in the company of eight inspiring women: pioneers and fighters in very diverse ways, they were determined to build lives for themselves, and in doing so they influenced the lives of others. Each was distinctive and distinguished and swam against the social current; and yet each was a representative of their land and their time, and has something to teach us about the realities for women in all countries and ages.
The eight extraordinary women mention in the book are:
Shote Galica (1895-1927) Kosovo
Musine Kokalari (1917-1983) Albania
Maria Jurić Zagorka (1873-1957) Croatia
Xenia Petrović-Njegoš (1881-1960) Montenegro
Maga Magazinović (1882-1968) Serbia
Margaret Hasluck (1885-1948) Albania
Esma Redžepova (1943-2016) North Macedonia
The book can be purchased now on Amazon.
About the authors
Robert Wilton is a British writer and diplomat. As a diplomat he has worked in the Balkans, including as an advisor to the prime minister of Kosovo and as a Deputy Ambassador for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. As a writer he is known for his Comptrollerate-General series of historical novels, for the first of which he was awarded the Historical Writers’ Association Crown.
Since 1992 he has lived with the travel writer and educator Elizabeth Gowing. In 2009, together with a Kosovar friend, they founded The Ideas Partnership, a charity that supports the education and integration of children from marginalised and minority communities, as well as working to protect cultural heritage and the environment.