Dragan Velikić
Biography
Dragan Velikić was born in Belgrade in 1953. His father was a naval officer. When he was five the family moved to Pula. He went back to Belgrade to study comparative literature and literary theory at the Philological Faculty. He wrote his first story at the age of 26 and as it was well received, he decided to become a professional writer. At the beginning of the 90s he was a staff member on the weekly newspaper Vreme and from 1996 to 1999 was chief reader of the “B92” publishing company and chief editor of the radio programme with the same name. He was a columnist for several newspapers and also wrote for German and Austrian newspapers about the political situation in Serbia. He publicly criticised Slobodan Milošević, Croatian and Serbian nationalistic politics and strongly opposed the war, he was soon branded as a national traitor. He left Belgrade just a few days before the NATO bombing in 1999 . He lived in Budapest, later moving to Berlin and then to Vienna. He would later become Serbian ambassador to Austria. He is considered one of the leading Serbian writers and has written novels, short stories and poems. Two of his novels have been published in English.
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1983 Pogrešan pokret (stories)
1985 Staklena bašta (stories)
1988 Via Pula(novel))
1991 Astragan(novel))
1993Hamsin 51 (novel))
1993 Yu-Atlantida (essays)
1994 Deponija (essays)
1995 Severni zid (novel))
1997 Danteov trg (novel)
1998 Stanje stvari ( (essays)
2001 Slučaj Bremen(novel))
2003Dosije Domaševski (novel))
2006 Pseća pošta (essays)
2007 Ruski prozor The Russian Window) (novel))
2009 Beograd i druge priče ( (stories)
2010 piscima i gradovima (essays)
2012 Bonavia(novel))
2015 Islednik The Investigator) (novel))
2018 Bratstvo po mrlji (essays)
2019 Adresa (novel))
2022 Soko zove Lastu (essays)
2024 Bečki roman (novel))