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Aleksandar Gatalica

Born 1964 · Serbia

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Books on prize lists

  • In English

    NIN 2012 · Winner

    The Great War

    Veliki rat

    Aleksandar Gatalica · 48 when first published

    Novel · 414 pages · War, Historical

    AI-generated summary:Following more than seventy characters on every side of the First World War, from crowned heads and generals to opera singers, spies, soldiers and shopgirls, the novel tells the four years of the war across all of Europe's fronts.

  • No English yet

    NIN 2008 · Shortlist

    Невидљиви

    Nevidljivi

    Title translated by AI:“The Invisible Ones”

    Aleksandar Gatalica · 44 when first published

    Novel · 310 pages · Historical, Satire

    AI-generated summary:From his sickbed, starting in 1953, Dr Dimitrije Gerasimović Gerasim writes thirty-three letters to a young friend in Chicago, revealing his part in the greatest artistic conspiracy of the century, the invention of modern art.