Predrag Marković ( sr-Cyrl, Предраг Марковић; born 7 December 1955) is a Serbian politician, author and historian.

Political career

Marković was

President of the National Assembly of Serbia The president of the National Assembly of Serbia ('' sr, Председник Народне скупштине Србије / Predsednik Narodne skupštine Srbije'') is the presiding officer of the National Assembly of Serbia. The president ...

from 2004 to 2007 and the acting

President of Serbia The president of Serbia ( sr, Председник Србије, Predsednik Srbije), officially styled as the President of the Republic ( sr, Председник Републике, Predsednik Republike) is the head of state of Serbia. The curr ...

within

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between 4 March and 11 July 2004. In addition, he has been the president of the

G17 Plus G17 Plus was a centre-right political party in Serbia. Founded as a non-governmental organization dealing with economic issues, in 2002 it transformed into a political party that became part of several ruling coalition governments in Serbia thro ...

Management Board, the President of the G17 Plus Political Council and member of their Executive Board. In 2003, he was chosen as an honorary president of the G17 Plus Party. During Marković's tenure as President of the National Assembly, the National Assembly unanimously returned the

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and

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of Serbia on 17 August 2004 and on 5 June 2006 announced Serbia's sovereignty. Marković was the

Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia The Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia ( sr, link=, Покрет обнове Краљевине Србије, Pokret obnove Kraljevine Srbije; abbr. ПОКС or POKS) is a monarchist and national-conservative political party ...

candidate for

Mayor of Belgrade The Mayor of Belgrade ( sr, Градоначелник Београда / ''Gradonačelnik Beograda'') is the head of the City of Belgrade (the capital and largest city of Serbia). The Mayor acts on behalf of the city, and performs an executive ...

during the

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. He finished with 4,291 votes.

Literary career

Marković is a member of

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, the Serbian Literary Society and is the former president of the Association of Publishers of Serbia and Montenegro. From 1993 to 2013, he was the owner of the ''Stubovi kulture'' publishing house and has written six books. He speaks Serbian,

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, and

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. Marković is a contributor and honourable member of the Urban Book Circle (

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Personal life

Marković is known for keeping details from his personal life private. On 26 December 2015, Marković married Vesna (née Vujatović; born 1991). He has a son from a previous marriage.

Published books

* ''L‘imun. Isceđen'' (1982) * ''Morali bi doći nasmejani lavovi'' (1983) * ''Otmenost duše'' (1989) * ''Zavodnik ništavila'' (2017) * ''Kovčeg komedijant'' (2018) * ''David protiv Otužnog Zloduha'' (2020)

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Markovic, Predrag 1955 births Living people People from Paraćin Serbian writers Serbian monarchists 20th-century Serbian historians Serbian book publishers (people) Serbian literary critics Government ministers of Serbia G17 Plus politicians Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia politicians Presidents of the National Assembly (Serbia) Presidents of Serbia within Yugoslavia University of Belgrade Faculty of Political Science alumni