| Dragan Lakićević | |
| Birth Date: | 5 August 1954 |
| Birth Place: | Kolašin, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Occupation: | Writer, poet, editor |
| Nationality: | Serbian |
| Alma Mater: | University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology |
Dragan Lakićević (Serbian Cyrillic: Драган Лакићевић; born 5 August 1954) is a Serbian poet, storyteller, novelist, translator and editor of literature. Lakićević's work has been translated into Russian, Greek, English, German, Swedish, Dutch, Polish, Italian, Belarusian, Romanian and Armenian. He has lived in Belgrade since 1972.
Born on 5 August 1954 in Kolašin, Yugoslavia, he attended primary school in Kolašin from 1960 to 1967 and secondary school in Titograd (present-day Podgorica) from 1968 to 1972. He graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology, Department of Yugoslav and World Literature, in 1978.
He worked in publishing as an editor of the publishing company Rad in Belgrade from 1979 and went on to become the editor-in-chief from 1986 to 1992. He was an editor of Srpska književna zadruga from 1992 and has been the editor-in-chief since 2009. He also took part in the publishing activities and projects of publishers Bookland, Partenon, and Dereta.
Lakićević was the editor of literary magazines Raskovnik and Književna kritika, as well as of the children's Orthodox newspaper "Svetosavsko zvonce”. His poems were first published in 1970 in “Male novine” from Sarajevo and “Politika za decu” from Belgrade, and first books of poetry were published in 1976: “Između nas zima” (“Between Us the Winter”) by Matica srpska (Novi Sad) and “Drugo lice” (“Another Face”) by Književna omladina Srbije (Belgrade). His diary from the war time, "Letters from Homeland" was published in Serbian-Swedish magazin "Dijaspora", at the year 1999.
He has edited and compiled numerous books, publications and editions including the anthology “Srpska književnost za decu” (“Serbian literature for children”) in nearly 100 volumes published by Bookland, Belgrade, 1995–2010. In addition to this he has compiled further anthologies of Serbian and world fairy tales and Serbian children's poetry.
He has received a number of awards for his literary work: "Smeli cvet" (Savez Omladine Srbije), “Orden Zlatni jež”, "Politikin Zabavnik" literary award, “Zmaj Ognjeni Vuk”, “Kočićevo pero”, “Deretina knjiga godine”, “Vukova nagrada”, “Pečat varoši sremsko-karlovačke”, Gračanička povelja, Odzivi Filipu Višnjiću ...