The Facts Behind One Story in Best European Fiction for 2011

| March 6th 2011 | Croatian author Mima Simić, whose short story "My Girlfriend" was published in the anthology Best European Fiction 2011 was quite astonished to see the editor's interventions in her text, which changed the meaning of her story entirely.

“I don’t write straight stories; and I don’t want anyone to be straightening my stories, in any way, sexual or textual—and certainly notwithout my consent.”

Mima Simić, an activist, writer and gender theorist would never have produced this “corrected“ version of the story (which made the narrator a man and the relationship heterosexual). When she confronted the publisher with these “interventions”, the editorial director replied he did not know why these changes were made. Read more on this at The Facts Behind One Story in Dalkey Archive’s Best European Fiction for 2011.