Labud Dragić Explained

Labud Dragić (Serbian-Cyrillic: Лабуд Драгић; born 24 October 1954, in Ljevišta, SR Montenegro, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian writer of Montenegrin origin.

Life and Work

Labud Dragić was born in Ljevišta, a very small village of Morača Highland in Montenegrin municipality of Kolašin. Dragić attended a gymnasium in Sarajevo with maturity diploma in 1973, then he studied literary science with a focus on literary theory at the Philological Faculty of Belgrade's University and graduated in 1979. The writer is current member of the Association of Writers of Serbia. Dragić has already been a frequent visitor to Serbian Canadian community in Ontario. The artist lives in New Belgrade.[1] [2] [3]

So far, his texts were published in literary magazines such as Polja (Serbian: Fields), Književna reč (Serbian: Literary Word), Nova Zora (Serbian: New Zora), Trag (Serbian: Trace), the Serbian Canadian weekly newspaper Novine Toronto (Serbian: Toronto News) and some others. In 2017, he received the Isidora Sekulić Award, the Momo Kapor Award, the Svetozar Ćorović Award and the Seal of Time Award for Science and Social Theory (Pečat vremena za nauku i društvenu teoriju) for his novel Kukavičja pilad (Cuckoo Chicks). The plot and the fate of its characters deals with the events at the time of last Montenegrin King Nikola I Petrović-Njegoš towards the end of World War I. The title of the novel has a metaphorical meaning: the Serbian word cuckoo can be used synonymously for coward.[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]

The multiple laureate already commented on prizes many years ago in an article (Literary Evaluation of the Day) of Hereticus magazine as follows:

Bibliography (selection)

Notes and References

  1. Article on Labud Dragić in: Ko je ko u Srbiji '96: biografski leksikon, Bibliofon, Belgrade 1996 (World Biographical Information System Online), retrieved on 2017-10-12.
  2. http://www.rts.rs/page/rts/sr/Dijaspora/story/1526/srbija-na-vezi/3111919/labud-dragic-gost-srpske-zajednice-u-kanadi.html Voyage to Ontario in April 2018
  3. http://www.serbianheritageacademyofcanada.ca/past-activities-in-pictures.html Serbian Heritage Academy of Canada
  4. https://polja.rs/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/selection13-1.pdf Gozba mrtvih
  5. http://polja.rs/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/selection7-30.pdf Bogojavljene
  6. Seobe (Migration) in: Književna reč No. 511, 2000.
  7. Osveta (Revenge) in: Trag No. 2-2-8/2006 (p. 46) on the Website by the City Library Danilo Kiš Vrbas, retrieved on 2017-10-19.
  8. http://www.rts.rs/page/stories/sr/story/16/kultura/2692460/labudu-dragicu-nagrada-momo-kapor.html Notification
  9. http://slobodnahercegovina.com/ziri-odlucio-labud-dragic-dobitnik-nagrade-svetozar-corovic/ Notification
  10. http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/kultura.71.html:669578-Milutin-postao-Mujo Article on the novel
  11. http://www.pecat.co.rs/2017/05/dobitnici-nagrada-pecat-vremena/ Notification
  12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tbWhYfXaU0 Interview
  13. https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Labud+Dragic.+Divlji+Andjeo.-a098644072 Review
  14. Review by Nadežda Obradović, Journal of North American Society for Serbian Studies, Vol. 15/1/2001 (p. 165), Google Drive, retrieved 2019-01-07.
  15. https://www.in4s.net/adzic-dragiceve-neistine-u-nagradjenom-romanu-propaganda-protiv-crne-gore/?lang=lat Dragić's falsehoods in the award-winning novel - propaganda against Montenegro
  16. http://www.vbs.rs/cobiss/ Catalogue

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