Born 1962 · Serbia
NIN 2023 · Shortlist
Vladan Matijević · 61 when first published
Novel · 310 pages · War, Crime
AI-generated summary:A traumatised veteran of the fighting at Pakrac spends his days outside Belgrade's Đeram market among drifters, dealers and beggars, addressing a long monologue to Pepi, his comrade from the front.
NIN 2020 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Freedom of Speech”
Vladan Matijević · 58 when first published
Novel · 300 pages · Crime, Politics
AI-generated summary:When the journalist Čomski mysteriously disappears, the story of his friendship since student days with his colleague Vladimir F. unfolds amid journalism entangled with political interests up to the highest levels of power.
NIN 2016 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“An Encounter in Unusual Circumstances”
Vladan Matijević · 54 when first published
Novel · 197 pages · Love, Speculative
AI-generated summary:On 9 July 2015 Ana Žeželj smokes, drinks beer and waits, as always, for a call from Marjan, who vanished more than half a century ago; this time she feels a pain in her chest and sees a being with ash-grey wings in her bathroom.
NIN 2010 · Shortlist
Vrlo malo svetlosti
Vladan Matijević · 48 when first published
Novel · 278 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:Three stories follow people who were successful until yesterday and are now defeated: Hilary Hudson, an American art historian; Milutin Čabrinović, known as Anthracite, a former minister; and Đorđe Istina, a final-year philosophy student.
NIN 2003 · Winner
Pisac izdaleka
Title translated by AI:“A Writer from Afar”
Vladan Matijević · 41 when first published
Novel · Satire, War
AI-generated summary:During the 1999 bombing, while dodging mobilisation, the Serbian writer Džoni Glintić sets out to write a novel that will win him a prestigious literary prize awarded by the Serbian Sugar Factory.