Darko Tuševljaković
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Darko Tuševljaković (born 1978) is a Serbian writer. He was born in
Zenica Zenica ( ; ; ) is a city in Bosnia and Herzegovina and an administrative and economic center of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina's Zenica-Doboj Canton. It is located in the Bosna (river), Bosna river valley, about north of Sarajevo. Th ...
in the then-
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(currently
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). The author of seven books, he is best known for his 2016 novel ''Jaz'' (''The Chasm'') which won the
European Union Prize for Literature The European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL), established in 2009, is a European Union literary award. Its aim is to recognise outstanding new literary talents from all over Europe, to promote the circulation and translation of literature among ...
in 2017. It was also shortlisted for Serbia's leading literary prize, the
NIN Award The ''NIN'' Award ( sr, Ninova nagrada, italics=yes, Нинова награда), officially the Award for Best Novel of the Year, is a prestigious Serbian (and previously Yugoslavian) literary award established in 1954 by the ''NIN'' weekly an ...
. He published his most recent novel, ''Uzvišenost'' (''Sublimeness''), in 2021. In 2023. he received prestigious Andric Prize for his collection of stories ''Hangar za snove'' (''Hangar for Dreams''). Tuševljaković lives in
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1978 births Living people People from Zenica Writers from Belgrade {{Serbia-writer-stub