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Vladislav Bajac

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Vladislav Bajac

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1954-06-02 (Belgrade)
Nationality
Serbian
Languages
Serbian
Residence History
Belgrade

Career

Occupations
writer, poet, journalist, publisher
Active Years
1972-2024
Affiliations
Geopoetika

Education

University of Belgrade
Faculty of Philology / Philology
Country: Serbia

Awards

Dimitrije Mitrinovic Award
2015
Result: winner
Special Book Award of China
2014
Result: winner
Haiku awards at The International Itoen Haiku Poetry Contest
1991
Organization: Itoen
Result: winner
Haiku awards at The International Itoen Haiku Poetry Contest
1993
Organization: Itoen
Result: winner
Stevan Pesic Award
1996
Work: revised edition
Result: winner
Borislav Pekic Foundation Prize
1993
Organization: Borislav Pekic Foundation
Result: winner
The 6th April Award
1998
Work: (ancient) Belgrade
Organization: Serbian Literary Union and Belgrade City Assembly
Result: winner
The Golden Best-Seller Award
1999
Result: winner
Branko Copic Foundation Award
1998
Organization: Serbian Academy of Science and Art
Result: winner
Novel of the Year
1998
Organization: Vecernje Novosti
Result: winner
Award for one of ten best-selling books
2001
Result: winner
International Award for Collected Prose Work
2003
Result: winner
International Balkanika Award
2008
Work: Hamam Balkania
Result: winner
Isidora Sekulić Award
2008
Result: winner
Hit Liber Award
2008
Result: winner
Kocicevo pero Award
2010
Result: winner
Petar Kocic Award
2010
Result: winner
Ramonda Serbica Award
2012
Result: winner
Prozart Award
2013
Organization: PRO-ZA Balkan Festival
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Hamam Balkania

2008 Novel

Its chapters alternate between two timelines... raise questions about where identity comes from and how it is shaped by religion and national history.

identityreligionnational history
Translations
  • translated into twenty languages

Bibliography

  • Which way Leads To People (1972)
  • The Path of Haiku (1988)
  • Europe On the Bull’s Back (1988)
  • Dream Coasters (Geopoetical Fables) (1992)
  • The Book of Bamboo (1989)
  • The Black Box (An Utopia On Subsequent Reality) (1993)
  • The Druid of Sindidun (1998)
  • Escape from Biography (A Life under Eight Names) (2001)
  • Europe Express (A Novel In Short Stories) (2003)
  • Hamam Balkania (A Novel and Other Stories) (2008)
  • Chronicles of Doubt (2016)
  • Gastronomadic Stories (2012)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
autobiographical first person narrationomniscient third person narrationdual structure
Recurring Motifs
origins of identityinfluence of religionshaping by national history

Legacy

Serbian writer, poet, journalist and publisher. Founded Geopoetika publishing house. Books translated into twenty languages. Best known for Hamam Balkania.