Dragan Velikić

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Dragan Velikić was born in 1953 in Belgrade. He grew up in the Croatian town of Pula on the Adriatic coast.

Velikić has published twelve novels: Via Pula (1988), Astrakhan (1991), Hamsin 51 (1993), The North Wall (1995), Dante’s Square (1997), The Case of Bremen (2001), Dossier Domaszewski (2003), The Russian Window (2007), Bonavia (2012), The Investigator (2015), The Address (2019),Vienna Novel (2024), three books of short stories and six books of essays. His books have been translated into eighteen European languages, Arabic and Farsi in eighty foreign editions.

For the novel The Russian Window (2007) he has received the NIN Award and the Meša Selimović Award in Serbia and the Mitteleuropa Award in Austria. The Russian Window has been published in Serbia in 16 editions and it was sold in 30,000 copies. For the novel Investigator he received his second NIN Award and this novel was sold in 50,000 copies.

In 2013 Dragan Velikić was presented The Award of the City of Budapest for literature and Vilenica International Literary Prize for 2019.

 He lives in Belgrade.