Goran Petrović

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Goran Petrović (Serbian Cyrillic - Горан Петровић) (born in 1961 in Kraljevo, Serbia) is one of the most significant and most widely read among contemporary Serbian writers. He studied Yugoslav and Serbian literature at the Faculty of Philology of Belgrade University. He works as a librarian in a city library in Žiča, very close to Žiča Monastery. He received the most prominent award in Serbian literature, the NIN Prize, in 2000, for his novel Ситничарница „Код срећне руке".

He first published the book of short prose, Advices for Easier Life (Савети за лакши живот, 1989), followed by the novel Sky-Locked Atlas (Атлас описан небом, 1993); then a collection of short stories, Island and Ambiental Stories (Острво и околне приче, 1996); again, novels (Siege of The Saint Salvation Church : Опсада цркве Светог Спаса, 1997; Smalltalk Place at "Lucky Shot" (Ситничарница „Код срећне руке", 2000); another collection of short stories, Close One (Ближњи, 2002); a selection of short writings in prose, Everything I Know About Time (Све што знам о времену, 2003); and a drama, Ferry (Скела, 2004).

His books have been reprinted several times.

Petrović's novels have already been translated into Russian, French, Italian and Spanish.

The novel Siege of The Saint Salvation Church was dramatized and directed as a play by Kokan Mladenović, at the National Theatre of Sombor.

Goran Petrović has won the Borislav Pekić Fund Scholarship; the "Prosveta Award"; the "Meša Selimović Award"; as well as various other awards: the "Charter of Rača", "Golden Bestseller" and "Vital Award"; the "National Library of Serbia"Award; the "Most widely read Book Award" (NIN, 2001); the "October Award of the City of Kraljevo; finally, the "Borislav Stanković Award".