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Mirjana Novaković

Born 1966 · Serbia

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    NIN 2005 · Shortlist

    Johann's 501

    Mirjana Novaković · 39 when first published

    Novel · 524 pages · Speculative, Politics

    AI-generated summary:In a Belgrade that looks like the city at the turn of the millennium yet is subtly wrong, with no New Belgrade, no recent history and chocolate sold only by dealers, people who find their world unbearable set out to replace it with a perfect one.

  • In English

    NIN 2000 · Shortlist

    Fear and Servant

    Страх и његов слуга · Strah i njegov sluga

    Mirjana Novaković · 34 when first published

    Novel · 267 pages · Historical, Speculative

    AI-generated summary:Early in the eighteenth century a so-called Count von Hausburg arrives in Austrian-ruled Belgrade, seduces a princess, spies on her husband the regent and quietly looks into the vampires reported around the town. The count is in fact the devil.