Miodrag Bulatović

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Miodrag Bulatović (Serbian Cyrillic: Миодраг Булатовић) (born 1930, in Okladi, near Bijelo Polje, Zeta Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia - death 1991, Igalo, Montenegro, SFR Yugoslavia) was a Montenegrin Serb^[1] novelist and playwright. He began in 1956 with a book of short stories, Djavoli dolaze (En. "The Devils Are Coming", translated as Stop the Danube), for which he received the Serbian Writers Union Award. His best novel was, however, The Red Rooster Flies Heavenwards, set in the ambient of his homeland of north-eastern Montenegro; the novel was translated in over 20 foreign languages. Then he stopped publishing for a while, as a refusal of accepting intrusions in his works. His following novel, Hero on a Donkey was initially published abroad and only 4 years later in Yugoslavia (1967). He won the prestigious NIN Award for novel of the year in 1975 for People with Four Fingers, an insight to the emigrant's life; The Fifth Finger came later as a sequel to this book. His last novel was Gullo Gullo, bringing together various themes featured in most of his previous books.

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Stop the Danube (Djavoli dolaze, 1956)
The Wolf and the Bell (Vuk i zvono, 1958)
The Red Rooster Flies Heavenwards (Crveni petao leti prema nebu, 1959)
He Has Arrived (Godo je došao, 1966)
Hero on a Donkey (Heroj na magarcu, 1967)
The War Was Better (Rat je bio bolji, 1968)
People with Four Fingers (Ljudi sa četiri prsta, 1975)
The Fifth Finger (Peti prst, 1977)
Gullo gullo (1981)
Death's Lover - a series of articles in Politika newspaper (Ljubavnik smrti, 1990)