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Dragan Velikić

ドラガン・ヴェリキッチ

Dragan Velikić

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1953-07-03 (Belgrade)
Nationality
Serbia
Languages
Serbian
Residence History
Belgrade → Vienna

Career

Occupations
novelist, short story writer, essayist, ambassador, publicist
Active Years
1983-2024
Affiliations
Embassy of Serbia, Vienna
Influenced By
Gaito Gazdanov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Constantine P. Cavafy, Ivo Andrić, Aleksandar Tišma

Education

University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology
Country: Serbia

Awards

NIN Award
2007
Work: Ruski prozor
Organization: NIN
Result: Winner
NIN Award
2015
Work: Islednik
Organization: NIN
Result: Winner
Vilenica International Literary Prize
2019
Result: Winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Ruski prozor / The Russian Window

2007 novel

Autobiographical story.

Translations
  • English (The Russian Window, 2010)

Islednik / The Investigator

2015 novel
Translations
  • English (The Investigator, 2025)

Bibliography

  • Via Pula (1988)
  • Astragan (1991)
  • Hamsin 51 (1993)
  • Severni zid (1995)
  • Danteov trg (1997)
  • Slučaj Bremen (2001)
  • Dosije Domaševski (2003)
  • Ruski prozor (2007)
  • Bonavia (2012)
  • Islednik (2015)
  • Adresa (2019)
  • Hamsin 51 (2022)
  • Bečki roman (2024)

Legacy

He's one of the best known writers of modern Serbia.

Trivia

  • In mid-1970s, Velikić was shortly a keyboardist for the popular rock band Pop Mašina.
  • In 2017, he signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.