Jevrem Brković
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Jevrem Brković (born 29 December 1933) is a Montenegrin writer (poet, novelist, journalist), historian and a cultural activist. He is known for his vivid criticism of his political opponents, as well as figures from Montenegrin public life.
Brković spent his early life in Belgrade. In 1975 he was the recipient of the "13th July prize".
While in Belgrade, Brković promoted Serbian nationalism and was in support of Milošević at first. Since the 1990s, he affirmed a pro-Montenegrin attitude, and his views were sometimes described as being anti-Serb ones. He was also at the time a harsh critic of the regime, then led by Milo Đukanović. During the Yugoslav wars, Brković left Montenegro for Croatia, where he stayed until 1999.
In 1999 he returned to Montenegro, when, in his words, "Montenegro once again became Montenegrin". He has since been a strong supporter of Montenegrin independence from the state union of Serbia and Montenegro.
The same year Brković became the founder and first president of the Doclean Academy of Sciences and Arts, a non-governmental cultural organization in Montenegro. At around the same time, he became the editor of the "Montenegrin Literary Paper" (Crnogorski Književni List - CKL) that is published in Montenegrin, Serbian, Bosnian and Croatian language, thus being the first ever newspaper published in Montenegrin.
He is criticized a lot for his frequent switches of attitudes, from a "Greater Serb nationalist" to a Montenegrin independist and Croatian sympathizer and even nationalist; his enemies mostly calling him an "Ustaša" because of his newfound Greater Croatian nationalist beliefs. His works also failed to achieve a broader scale of popularity mainly because of frequent uses of obscene and vulgar wording.
In 2001, his organization, the Doclean Academy of Sciences and Arts, actively campaigned for the election of Milo Đukanović's "Coalition for an independent Montenegro". They published a novel pamphlet which depicts Montenegro as a Greater Red Croatia and hypothetical pan-Croatian unified lands (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, western Serbia's Vojvodina (Serbian Bačka and eastern Srem), southwestern "Old Serbia" (Rashka and Kosovo's Metohija) and the northern half of Albania). Such terminology is widely seen as anachronistic and bizarre.
On October 24, 2006 Brković and his driver and bodyguard Srđan Vojičić were attacked by three armed men. Vojičić was shot dead, while Brković escaped with mild injuries. [1] It is speculated that the motive for the attack was the latest Brković's book, "The lover of Doclea" (Ljubavnik Duklje), in which he indirectly ridicules many people from the Montenegrin public life, especially close friends of former Prime Minister Milo Đukanović, but not Đukanović himself.
Brković's son, Balša Brković is also a notable Montenegrin writer.
