Lit in Translation

Goran Petrović

Born 1961 · Serbia

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    NIN 2022 · Shortlist

    Папир са воденим знаком

    Papir sa vodenim znakom

    Title translated by AI:“Watermarked Paper”

    Goran Petrović · 61 when first published

    Novel · 158 pages · Historical · Roman delta, book 1

    AI-generated summary:At the start of the 15th century, Queen Giovanna II of Naples sets out in person for Amalfi, whose papermakers' guild chooses carefully whom it will sell to, to buy the finest paper for a love letter.

  • No English yet

    NIN 2010 · Shortlist

    Испод таванице која се љуспа

    Ispod tavanice koja se ljuspa

    Title translated by AI:“Under the Peeling Ceiling”

    Goran Petrović · 49 when first published

    Novella · 183 pages · Historical, Satire

    AI-generated summary:In the Uranija cinema of a small Serbian town, a gallery of viewers watches a fateful screening interrupted by astonishing news, the death of Marshal Tito, beneath a ceiling painted as a sky that is starting to peel.

  • In English

    NIN 2000 · Winner

    At the Lucky Hand, aka The Sixty-Nine Drawers

    Ситничарница „Код срећне руке“ · Sitničarnica „Kod srećne ruke“

    Goran Petrović · 39 when first published

    Novel · 327 pages · Love, Historical

    AI-generated summary:Adam Lozanić, a poor student who proofreads for a tourist magazine, is hired to correct My Legacy, a strange 1936 novel by Anastas Branica that has no characters or events and was written as a meeting place for its author and the woman he loves.