Jovan Nikolaidis

Jovan Nikolaidis (born July 11, 1950 in Ulcinj ) is a Montenegrin writer, publisher and cultural activist. He is intensely committed to the cultural dialogue between the writers of Montenegro and the writers in the neighboring countries of Croatia , Bosnia and Herzegovina and Albania .

From 1974 to 1990 Nikolaidis lived in Sarajevo , where he worked as a journalist for the Oslobođenje newspaper . Since 1990 he has been living in his native Ulcinj again, where he works as a writer, editor and director of the Plima cultural association . The main aim of this cultural association co-founded by Nikolaidis is to promote cultural pluralism in Montenegro. That is why Nikolaidis publishes the bilingual (Serbian / Albanian) cultural magazine Plima - Batica . He also publishes the works of younger Montenegrin authors such as Ognjen Spahic, Aleksandar Becanovic and Dragana Tripkovic.

Since 1998 he has published the daily Kronika . This is the only politically independent newspaper in Montenegro in Albanian.

Nikolaidis is a regular guest at the Poeteka poetry festival organized by his Albanian friend Arian Leka in Durrës . At the Leipzig Book Fair in March 2009 he read from his works at the invitation of the Robert Bosch Foundation.

Works

• Ulcinjska pisma, political chronicle 2 vols. (1998 and 2004)
• Valdinos 33, novel (2000)
• Velaskez opet, novella (2004)
• Fosforne brojanice, political chronicle (2005) ISBN 86-85727-05-7
• Valdinos. Pripovijesti, short novel (2008) ISBN 978-953-249-057-2
• Rane pjesme, poems (2008) ISBN 978-86-84013-06-6
• Crnogorska Krivica, Political Essays (2009) ISBN 978-953-6296-85-9
• Dnevnik o ništavilu, Novelle (2009) ISBN 978-9940-9236-0-0

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• Plima cultural association (Serbian)
• Short biography on the website of the Festival Poeteka (English)
• Flyer literature from Southeast Europe at the Leipzig Book Fair (2009) (PDF; 268 kB)