Milovan Stanković ( Serbian-Cyrillic: Милован Станковић; born 1969,

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) is a Serbian writer and

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Biography

Stanković studied at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of Belgrade's University. He is employed as an electrical engineer at

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. Stanković published a business profile on

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( BT Parison Ltd.) without indication to his artistic work, there is a professional profile with contact details at ZoomInfo and his personal

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represents the literary work only. He lives in his native place. The author of two novels, three volumes with

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and a collection of

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is laureate of the Isidora Sekulić Award (2001) and the Milutin Uskoković Award (2004).

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is the location of the novel ''All About the Fuller Family'' (2001), which reflects on the American way of life and the

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from the perspective of a family. The main character of the story is an immigrant to the United States. The award-winning narrative ''From the Preacher's Book'' (Iz knjige propovednika; 2004) has been published in the short stories volume ''Stories from the

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'' in 2006. Some of his short stories have been also published in literary magazines such as ''Stremljenja'' (Aspirations), ''Koraci'' (Steps), Mali Nemo's ''Sveske'' (Notebooks), ''Polja'' and others. The novel ''If You Become A Butterfly in the Next Life'' was nominated for the final selection of the NIN Award 2013. The unpublished

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has been also nominated for the final selection of the Miroslav Dereta Award of the same named

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a few years earlier. In a brief unexpected encounter, the fictional character Martin falls in love with a woman who is found murdered shortly thereafter. He is then accused of being the prime suspect in the murder. The location of the plot is

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as a fantastically surreal background for the story, which already became a dark-mystical place in stories of Kafka and Perutz to world literary fame. The book of poems ''What A Dream Of Flowers'' was translated into

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by Zlatoje Martinov.

Bibliography (selection)

*''Pločnici ljubavi'' (Sidewalks of Love), Književne novine, Belgrade 1996, poems, . *''Noć u nama'' (Night in Us), Narodna knjiga–Alfa, Belgrade 1999, poems. *''Sve o porodici Fuler'' (All about the Fuller family), Narodna knjiga–Alfa, Belgrade 2001, novel, second edition Mali Nemo, Pančevo 2002, . *''Priče iz Eustahijeve trube'' (Stories from the

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), Stylos, Novi Sad 2006, short stories, . *''O čemu sanja cveće'' (What A Dream Of Flowers), Prometej, Novi Sad 2008, poems, . *''Ako u sledećem životu budeš leptir'' (If You Become A Butterfly in the Next Life), KOV,

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2013, novel, .COBISS
( union catalogue COBISS) of National Library of Serbia, retrieved on 2018-05-05. *''Ptolomejeva pevanja'' (

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's Chants), KOV, Vršac 2018, poems, .

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stankovic, Milovan 1969 births Living people Writers from Belgrade Serbian novelists Serbian male short story writers Serbian short story writers Engineers from Belgrade University of Belgrade School of Electrical Engineering alumni