Goran Petrović () (born 1961 in

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) is a Serbian writer and academic.

Biography

Goran Petrović studied Yugoslav and Serbian literature at the

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. He received the most prominent award in Serbian literature, 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 ...

, in 2000, for his novel ''Ситничарница „Код срећне руке"''. Currently he works and lives in Belgrade. Petrović is a member of the Serbian Literary Association, the Serbian PEN Centre and the

Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts ( la, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Serbica, sr-Cyr, Српска академија наука и уметности, САНУ, Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, SANU) is a national academy and the ...

. Goran Petrović has published one hundred and fifteen editions and the following books: the short prose pieces ''Савети за лакши живот'' (''Advices for an Easier Living'', 1989), novel ''Атлас описан небом'' (''Atlas Described by Sky'', 1993), collection of short stories ''Острво и околне приче'' (''The Island and Stories Around'', 1996), novel ''Опсада цркве Светог Спаса'' (''The Siege of the Church of Holy Ascension,'' 1997), novel ''Ситничарница "Код срећне руке"'' (''Sundries Shop "at The Lucky Hands"'', 2000), collection of short stories ''Ближњи'' (''Next of Kin'', 2002), selected short prose book ''Све што знам о времену'' (''Everything I Know About the Time'', 2003), play ''Скела'' (''The Ferry'', 2004), collection of short stories ''Разлике'' (''Differences'', 2006), the book of writings ''Претраживач'' (''Browser'', 2007), novella ''Испод таванице која се љуспа'' (''Below the fragmented ceiling'', 2010) and play ''Матица'' (''The Nut'', 2011). Some of his novels and stories have been adapted for theatre, television, and radio. Among them is the novel ''Siege of the Church of Saint Salvation'' that was dramatized and directed as a play by Kokan Mladenović, at the National Theatre of

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. Petrović’s novels and books of selected stories have been published in over fifty editions translated in languages such as French, German, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Polish, Ukrainian, Macedonian, English and Dutch. About fifty Petrović’s stories have been published separately in Russian, English, French, Spanish, German, Polish, Czech, Greek, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Macedonian, Belarusian, Hungarian, while about twenty have been included into anthologies of Serbian short stories in country and abroad.

Awards

Goran Petrović has received many awards and prizes including the ''

'' for the Novel of the Year, the ''Ivo Andrić'' Award, the ''Meša Selimović'' Award, the scholarship for literature from the ''Borislav Pekić'' Foundation, ''Prosveta'' Award, ''Serbian National Library'' Award for the most read book of the year, ''Golden Bestseller'' Award, ''Borisav Stanković'' Award.

Works

* ''Saveti za lakši život'' (1989) * ''Atlas opisan nebom'' (1993) * ''Ostrvo i okolne priče'' (1996) * ''Opsada crkve Svetog Spasa'' (1997) * ''Sitničarnica Kod srećne ruke'' (2000) * ''Bližnji'' (2002) * ''Sve što znam o vremenu'' (2003) * ''Skela'' (2004) * ''Razlike'' (2006) * ''Pretraživač'' (2007) * ''Ispod tavanice koja se ljuspa'' (2010) * ''Matica'' (2011) * ''Unutrašnje dvorište'' (2018) * ''Papir sa vodenim znakom'' (2022) * ''Ikonostas'' (2022)

References

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