Dragan Velikić Explained

Dragan Velikić
Birth Date:	1953 7, df=y
Birth Place:	Belgrade, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia
Nationality:	Serbian
Alma Mater:	Faculty of Philology in Belgrade
Occupation:	writer, publicist, ambassador
Awards:	NIN award, Vilenica International Literary Prize^[1]

Dragan Velikić (Serbian: Драган Великић; born 7 July 1953) is a Serbian novelist, short story writer, essayist and former Ambassador 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.^[2] In 2017, he signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.^{[3] [4]}

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^[5]
• Bonavia (2012)
• Islednik (2015), NIN award^[6]
• 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)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Velikiću nagrada Vilenica SEEcult.org. www.seecult.org. 2019-10-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20191015212316/http://www.seecult.org/vest/velikicu-nagrada-vilenica. 2019-10-15. dead.
2. Web site: Ambasador Dragan Velikić opozvan iz Austrije. Vojvodine. Javna medijska ustanova JMU Radio-televizija. JMU Radio-televizija Vojvodine. 2019-09-05.
3. Web site: Derk. Denis. Donosi se Deklaracija o zajedničkom jeziku Hrvata, Srba, Bošnjaka i Crnogoraca. A Declaration on the Common Language of Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins is About to Appear. Serbo-Croatian. Večernji list. 6–7. Zagreb. 0350-5006. 28 March 2017. 23 May 2017. http://www.webcitation.org/6qg0sFVHO. 9 April 2021. Alt URL.
4. Web site: Deklaracija o zajedničkom jeziku. live. 2024-08-19. Jezici i nacionalizmi.
5. Web site: "Руски прозор" - аутобиографска прича. Vojvodiny. Rádiodifúzna ustanovizeň Vojvodiny Rádio-televízia. Rádio-televízia Vojvodiny. 2019-09-05.
6. Web site: Dobitnik NIN-ove nagrade Dragan Velikić za roman "Islednik". Blic. Blic.rs. sr. 2019-09-05.