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Serbia · Since 1954 · For books in Serbian
Awarded each January by a jury of critics of the Belgrade weekly NIN to the best novel of the previous year; the prize is named for that year (the NIN Prize for 2010 went to a novel published in 2010). Open to novels written in Serbian. The jury publishes a shortlist of finalists before choosing the winner.
The NIN Prize for the novel of the year was founded in 1954 by the Belgrade news weekly NIN; its first winner was Dobrica Ćosić's Koreni. Every year a jury of five critics reads all the novels submitted from the previous year's production, often well over a hundred, and announces a shortlist of a few finalists, published as the uži or najuži izbor. A few days later, usually in mid-January, the jury picks the winner, often by a majority vote whose split is made public, and the prize is presented later that month. It is widely regarded as the most important Serbian literary award.
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NIN 2019 · Shortlist
Yugoslav
Ana Vučković · 35 when first published
Novel · 138 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:An elegy for the time the narrator spent with her father, above all in the Yugoslavia that was destroyed, recalled not from study but from memories that still hurt.
NIN 2018 · Shortlist
Uhvati zeca
Lana Bastašić · 32 when first published
Novel · 256 pages · War, Coming of age
AI-generated summary:Twelve years after their friendship broke off, Lejla calls Sara in Dublin to say that her brother Armin, long believed killed in the Bosnian war, is in Vienna, and the two women set out together from Mostar to find him.
NIN 2017 · Shortlist
Gorgone
Mira Otašević · 73 when first published
Novel · 147 pages · Historical, War
AI-generated summary:The lives of writers, actors, musicians, painters, lovers, soldiers, executioners and victims, Brecht, Beuys and Django among them, collide in an age bounded by the world wars, the destructive ones and the cold one.
NIN 2015 · Shortlist
La sans pareille
Milisav Savić · 70 when first published
Novel · 271 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Out of the chaos and blood of the Balkan civil war, Hasan Prtinac travels to Tuscany in search of beauty and art, to be renewed there and to come to know himself.
NIN 2011 · Shortlist
Kontrolni punkt
David Albahari · 63 when first published
Novel · 208 pages · War, Satire
AI-generated summary:Soldiers manning a checkpoint in an unnamed war, set outside any specific time or place, are put to the test of humanity by bizarre, tragicomic and often morbid situations, without knowing who is attacking whom.
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 2009 · Shortlist
Konstantinovo raskršće
Dejan Stojiljković · 33 when first published
Novel · 265 pages · War, Speculative, Historical
AI-generated summary:In Niš in 1944, SS officer Heinrich Kahn closes in on a sword forged from one of the nails of the Cross, hidden beneath the ancient city, while a Chetnik major and the German commander stand in his way and a string of horrific murders shakes the town.
NIN 2008 · Shortlist
Top je bio vreo
Vladimir Kecmanović · 36 when first published
Novel · 186 pages · War
AI-generated summary:In besieged Sarajevo an eleven-year-old Serbian boy loses his parents to shelling and stops speaking, and Tidža, a Muslim neighbour, takes him into her care.
NIN 2008 · Shortlist
Хамам Балканија · Hamam Balkanija
Vladislav Bajac · 54 when first published
Novel · 362 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:Chapters alternate between the sixteenth century of Mehmed Pasha Sokolović, the Serbian boy taken from his home who rose to grand vizier, and the architect Sinan, and our own time, where a writer named Vladislav Bajac meets Orhan Pamuk and other real people.
NIN 2006 · Shortlist
Komo
Srđan Valjarević · 39 when first published
Novel · 213 pages · Autofiction
AI-generated summary:A Belgrade writer who has never had money for travel goes abroad for a single month on a fellowship to Lake Como, at the foot of the Alps, and records his days there in a quiet, intimate chronicle.
NIN 2006 · Shortlist
Most
Zoran Živković · 58 when first published
Short stories · 123 pages
NIN 2005 · Shortlist
Pijavice
David Albahari · 57 when first published
Novel · 309 pages · Politics, Speculative
AI-generated summary:A young newspaper columnist witnesses a strange scene on the Zemun riverbank and starts his own investigation, which leads him to a mysterious young Jewish woman and a manuscript of kabbalistic texts.
NIN 2001 · Shortlist
Svetski putnik
David Albahari · 53 when first published
Novel · 216 pages · Migration, Politics
AI-generated summary:A Canadian narrator watches two men from the former Yugoslavia, Daniel Atijas, who fascinates him, and a man from the other side of the war, from Croatia, and through them faces how little anyone can grasp of the Balkans.
NIN 2001 · Shortlist
Опроштајни дар · Oproštajni dar
Vladimir Tasić · 36 when first published
Novel · 152 pages · Family, Migration
AI-generated summary:After his beloved, eccentric brother disappears in 1990s Novi Sad, the narrator emigrates to Canada, where a parcel arriving at his new address forces him to face the truth about the disappearance.
NIN 2000 · Shortlist
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.
NIN 2000 · Shortlist
Milenijum u Beogradu
Vladimir Pištalo · 40 when first published
Novel · 228 pages · Love, War
AI-generated summary:Five friends who grew up in a dreamlike, half-mythical Belgrade try to hold on to their friendship and their loves as the war that begins in 1991 and the city's long decline tear at their lives.