Petar Luković (21 January 1951 – 12 February 2024), nicknamed Pero s onog sveta ''()'', was a Serbian journalist, newspaper editor and onetime rock critic. He attended the Sixth Belgrade Gymnasium, and graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the

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Life and career

Luković started his career in 1976 as a journalist for ''Duga''

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. As a

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and

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, he wrote for many Yugoslav

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s and magazines, such as

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, ''

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'', ''Mladost'', ''Polet, a Thursday supplement of Slovenian newspaper,

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, Nedelja'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Rock 82'', and others. He was the

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of the magazine ''Tajne'', which deals with paranormal phenomena, and the magazine ''Sex Club'', the first

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in Serbia. He was the editor-in-chief of the portal ''

E-novine ''E-novine'' was a web portal that published news and commentary from the former Yugoslav countries. Based in Belgrade, edited by Petar Luković, and "published in Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian and Montenegrin languages", E-novine has pro-Western, ...

'' from its establishment until 1 March 2016, when the portal ceased to operate. In the period from 1991 to 1996, he worked for the

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weekly ''

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'', where he was also deputy editor-in-chief for a time. From 1996 to 1998, he wrote for '' Naša Borba''. Luković wrote for ''

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,'' satirical weekly addition of the Croatian daily from

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, ''Nedjeljna Dalmacija/Slobodna Dalmacija'' from its foundation in 1984 until his death, with a column titled ''"Pero sa onog sveta"'' ''()'', which gained him a long-lasting

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ous

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. He cooperated with the magazines ''Reporter'' from Belgrade, ''Dani'' from

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and ''

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'' from

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. In the period from January 1996 until the beginning of the

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in March 1999, he was the editor-in-chief of the magazine ''X Zabava''. After 2000, he worked for the owner of ''

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'', Željko Mitrović. Luković also published three books: ''A Better Past'' (1989), ''Ćorava Kutija'' (1993) and ''Godine Raspada — Chronicle of Serbian Decline'' (2000). In 1994, he received the '' Dragiša Kašiković Award'' as one of the first three laureates, and the ''Staša Marinković Award'' of the daily newspaper '' Danas'' was received in 2001. Petar Luković was on the electoral list of LDP, GSS, SDU, LSV for the parliamentary elections in Serbia held on 21 January 2007, but he failed to become a deputy due to the insufficient number of votes received by this coalition. As of 2022, Luković was editor-in-chief and columnist at the online magazine ''XXZ Regional Portal'', based in Belgrade. Petar Luković died after a protracted illness on 12 February 2024, at the age of 73.Preminuo novinar Petar Luković

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Збирка Луковићевих изјава за „Пешчаник”

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Archived at the website (1 March 2021) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lukovic, Petar 1951 births 2024 deaths Serbian journalists People from Kraljevo

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