Nenad Veličković

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Nenad Veličković (born May 2, 1962 in Sarajevo , Yugoslavia ) is a Bosnian writer and literary scholar.

Live and act

Veličković grew up in Sarajevo. In 1986 he completed a degree in Yugoslav literature and the Serbo-Croatian language . In 2006 he obtained his master's degree with a thesis on the theater by Dušan Kovačević. He did his doctorate at the University of Sarajevo on the ideological instrumentalization in school textbooks. There he is a lecturer at the chair for Serbian literature.

His debut novel Konačari (1995) was published in 1997 under the title Logiergäste bei Volk und Wissen . In it, Veličković describes the siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War from the perspective of an 18-year-old girl who is hiding with her family in the basement of a museum. The book has also been translated into English , Italian , Slovenian , Polish and Macedonian . In 2016 the follow-up novel The Father of My Daughter ( Otac moje kćeri ) was published by the Austrian publisher Sisyphus .

In his literary work he deals critically and often sarcastically with the conflicts in Bosnia and ex-Yugoslavia. In Sahib, for example, he describes post-war Bosnia from the perspective of an ignorant and arrogant Englishman who works for the UN in Sarajevo . In 2017 he signed the declaration on the common language of Croatians, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins , in which the ideological instrumentalization of the language was criticized. In 1998 Veličković was awarded the Bulgarian Aleko Prize.

1999–2007 Veličković was the owner of the Omnibus literary workshop .

Since 2009 he has been writing a satirical column for Deutsche Welle , Škljocam i zvocam ( Eng . "I snap and moan").

Works

  • Konačari (1995)
  • Đavo u Sarajevu (1996)
  • Sexikon / Sexpresionizam (1998)
  • Sarajevski gastronauti (1999)
  • Sahib: Impresije iz depresije (2001)
  • Otac moje kćeri (2002)
  • Viva SEXICO (2006)
  • 100 zmajeva (2007)
  • Dijagnoza-patriotizam (2010)
  • Vremenska petlja (2011)
  • Školokrečina: nacionalizam u srpskim, hrvatskim i bošnjačkim čitankama (2012)
  • Vitez švedskog stole (2013)
  • Ne govori mi dok te prekidam: Pubertetski antibonton (2018)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Donosi se Deklaracija o zajedničkom jeziku Hrvata, Srba, Bošnjaka i Crnogoraca. Večernji list , March 28, 2017, accessed November 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Veličković, Nenad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bosnian writer and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Sarajevo