Mirjana Novaković ( Serbian-Cyrillic: Мирјана Новаковић; born 28 April 1966 in Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia) is a

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n writer.

Life and Work

Mirjana Novaković is one of the most popular female representatives of contemporary Serbian literature and she can be described as most successful female

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author from her country, whose books have been published in several editions, its sales figures confirm that, including all more than positive reviews of literary critics. However, nobody will hardly find anything about her life in public, neither on her homepage, nor in the biographies in her books or on the websites of her publishers - excepting the date of birth. The novel ''Fear And His Servant'' is represented at the international book market with translations into French (2005), English (2009 and 2017), Macedonian and Arabic (2013), Russian (2014) and Chinese (2015). The first English edition (2009) was published by Geopoetika publishing in Belgrade and Peter Owen publishing from London published a second edition in the same year due to its great success, and in 2017 even a third edition took place. The novel’s dramatized version premiered at ''BELEF Summer Festival 2003'' co-operated by

Atelje 212 Atelje 212 ( sr-Cyrl, Атеље 212) is a theatre located in Belgrade, Serbia. Established in 1956 on the premises of the '' Borba'' building in front of 212 chairs, its opening play was the staging of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's ''Faust'' dire ...

Kalemegdan Fortress The Belgrade Fortress ( sr-Cyrl, Београдска тврђава, Beogradska tvrđava), consists of the old citadel (Upper and Lower Town) and Kalemegdan Park (Large and Little Kalemegdan) on the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, in ...

. The novel ''Tito Has Died'' has already been published in Bulgarian (2014) and Greek (2014). She received the

Isidora Sekulić Award The Isidora Sekulić Award ( sr, Nagrada Isidora Sekulić, italics=yes, sr-cyr, Награда Исидора Секулић) is a Serbian, and former Yugoslav, literary prize established by the Belgrade municipality of Savski venac in 1967 and ...

2000 for ''Fear And His Servant'' and the Lazar Komarčić Award 2005 (best science-fiction novel) for ''Johann’s 501''. All these three mentioned works has been nominated for the final selections of 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 a ...

. Mirjana Novaković was participant of the

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2010, the Neue Rundschau published her short story ''What Is Lost'' (Što je izgubljeno) in the same year.

Awards and honors

* Isidora Sekulić Award, 2000 * Lazar Komarčić Award, 2005

Bibliography

*''Dunavski apokrifi'' (

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Novi Sad Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; hu, Újvidék, ; german: Neusatz; see below for other names) is the second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pan ...

1996. *''Strah i njegov sluga'' (Fear and his Servant), novel, ReVision Publishing, Belgrade 2000, . *''La peur et son valet'' (Fear and his Servant), Gaïa Éditions,

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2005, . *''Johann's 501'', novel,

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, Belgrade 2005, . *''Tito je umro'' (

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Has Died), Laguna, Belgrade 2011, . *''Tajne priče'' (Secret Stories), short stories, Laguna, Belgrade 2016, . *''Fear And His Servant'',

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2009 and 2017, .Fear And Servant
Quarterly Conversation, retrieved 2018-11-08. *Страх и его слуга (Fear and his Servant), Lemax, Pskov 2014, . *Ο Τίτο πέθανε (Tito Has Died), Livanis,

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2014, . *Тито умря (Tito Has Died), Aton,

Sofia Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and h ...

2014, . *恐惧与仆人 (Fear and Servant),

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Literature and Art Publishing House, Hefei 2015, . *''Mir i mir'' (Peace and Peace), Laguna, Belgrade 2022,

References

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