Dragan Velikić

Serbian diplomat, writer and journalist
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroSerbian diplomat, writer and journalist
PlacesSerbia Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Croatia Montenegro
isDiplomat Writer Journalist
Work fieldJournalism Literature Politics
Gender
Male
Genres:Novel Short story
Birth3 July 1953, Belgrade, Kingdom of Hungary
Age71 years
Star signCancer
Education
University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology
The details

Biography

Dragan Velikiić (Belgrade, 7 July 1953) is a Serbian novelist, short story wtiter, essayist and former Ambasador to Austria. He's one of the best known writers of modern Serbia. His influences include Gaito Gazdanov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Constantine P. Cavafy, Ivo Andrić and Aleksandar Tišma among other authors. Velkić's best known works are the novels Ruski prozor and Islednik, for both of which he won the NIN award.

Works

Novels

  • Via Pula (1988)
  • Astragan (1991)
  • Hamsin 51 (1993)
  • Severni zid (1995)
  • Danteov trg (1997)
  • Slučaj Bremen (2001)
  • Dosije Domaševski (2003)
  • Ruski prozor (2007), NIN award
  • Bonavia (2012)
  • Islednik (2015), NIN award
  • Adresa (2019)

Short stories

  • Pogrešan pokret (1983)
  • Staklena bašta (1985)
  • Beograd i druge priče (2009)

Essays

  • Yu-Atlantida (1993)
  • Deponija (1994)
  • Stanje stvari (1998)
  • Pseća pošta (2006)
  • O piscima i gradovima (2010)
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