Dragomir Brajković ( sr-cyr, Драгомир Брајковић; 10 December 1947 – 29 November 2009) was a Montenegrin Serb writer, journalist, editor of

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, poet and member of the Association of Writers of Serbia.

Biography

He was born on 10 December 1947 in the village of Pisana Jela (

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) in present-day

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. He graduated from the

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Faculty of Philology. He began publishing poetry, prose, essays and critical texts in 1966. He actively advocated the preservation of Serbian–Montenegrin unionism within the

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(1992–2003) and then within the

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(2003–2006). In early 2005, he became one of the founders of the Serbian-based Movement for a European State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. Brajković died from a

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in his sleep on 29 November 2009. He is interred in the Alley of Distinguished Citizens in the Belgrade New Cemetery.

References

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