Summary
Dragan Velikić: The Glass Garden
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Velikić, Dragan, Serbian writer (Belgrade, 3 July 1953). In Pula, the central, mythical place of his narrative imaginary, he lived intermittently from 1958 to 1981. He graduated in literature at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade, then in 1994-98. was editor of the publishing activity of Radio B92. From the end of the 1990s, he lived occasionally abroad (Budapest, Vienna, Munich, Bremen, Berlin), then again in Belgrade; he was the ambassador of the Republic of Serbia in Austria 2005‒09. He published a series of internationally noted novels - Via Pula (1988), Astragan (1991), Hamsin 51 (1993), Northern Wall (1995), Dante's Square (1997), Bremen Case (2001), The Dossier. Domaševski (2003), Ruski prozor (2007; NIN award), Bonavia (2012), Islednik (2015; NIN award), Adresa (2019), in which the search for hybrid, split and shared cultural roots is focused equally on the historical and contemporary aporias of the Central European area, with direct thematic reliance on the autobiographical experiences of different European regions and identities. He also published collections of short stories Pogrešan pokret (1983), Glass Garden (1985) and Belgrade and Other Stories (2009), books of essays YU-tlantida (1993), Deponija (1994), State of Affairs (1998), Pseća pošta (2006), About writers and cities (2010), Brotherhood by stain (2018) and Doctors of Baron Munchausen (2019), and, in co-authorship, the monograph Pula – city interval (2014).
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