Mirjana Novaković
Mirjana Novaković (born 28 April 1966 in Belgrade) is a Serbian writer and a leading figure in contemporary Serbian literature. She is one of the most popular and best-selling female authors in Serbia, though not much is publicly known about her private life.
Her novel Fear And His Servant has been translated into many languages: French (2005), English (2009 and 2017), Macedonian and Arabic (2013), Russian (2014), and Chinese (2015). The first English edition came out in 2009 from Geopoetika (Belgrade), with a second edition published by Peter Owen (London) that same year due to its success; a third edition appeared in 2017.
A dramatized version of Fear And His Servant premiered at the BELEF Summer Festival in 2003, produced with Atelje 212 at Kalemegdan Fortress.
Her novel Tito Has Died has been published in Bulgarian (2014) and Greek (2014). She won the Isidora Sekulić Award in 2000 for Fear And His Servant and the Lazar Komarčić Award in 2005 for Johann’s 501 (best science-fiction novel). All three works were nominated for the final round of Serbia’s NIN Award.
Novaković participated in the Leipzig Book Fair in 2010, and Neue Rundschau published her short story What Is Lost (Što je izgubljeno) in 2010.
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