Born 1953 · Serbia
NIN 2015 · Winner
Islednik
Dragan Velikić · 62 when first published
Novel · 266 pages · Family, Autofiction, Historical
AI-generated summary:News of his mother's death reaches a writer in Budapest and leads him to open the black box of the family's past, tracing her life and a vanished world.
NIN 2007 · Winner
Ruski prozor
Dragan Velikić · 54 when first published
Novel · 358 pages
AI-generated summary:Daniel, an ageing conductor, tells the story of his life to a listener, Rudi Stupar, a young man from a small Vojvodina town and a would-be actor, whose own story then takes over the novel.
NIN 2003 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Domaszewski File”
Dragan Velikić · 50 when first published
Novel · 199 pages
AI-generated summary:The narrator becomes absorbed in Viktor von Domaszewski, a forgotten architect who might have built the harbour of Pula but was sidelined to a single warehouse, and in his imagination makes him the true creator of the port.
NIN 2001 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Bremen Case”
Dragan Velikić · 48 when first published
Novel · 220 pages · Family, Historical
AI-generated summary:Ivan Bazarov builds his life out of other people's stories, those of his stepfather, his mother, his grandfather, his lover Olivera and the father who vanished in a camp near Bremen, as his family is driven through the storms of the twentieth century.