Dragan Velikić
Dragan Velikić | |
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Photo of Velikić, 2018 | |
| Born | 3 July 1953 |
| Nationality | Serbian |
| Alma mater | Faculty of Philology in Belgrade |
| Occupation(s) | writer, publicist, ambassador |
| Awards | NIN award Vilenica International Literary Prize |
Dragan Velikić (Serbian Cyrillic: Драган Великић; born 7 July 1953) is a Serbian novelist, short story writer, essayist and former Ambassador to Austria. He's one of the best known writers of modern Serbia.
His influences include Gaito Gazdanov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Constantine P. Cavafy, Ivo Andrić and Aleksandar Tišma among other authors.
Velkić's best known works are the novels Ruski prozor and Islednik, for both of which he won the NIN award.
In 2017, he signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.
In mid-1970s, Velikić was shortly a keyboardist for the popular rock band Pop Mašina.