Zoran Petrović (writer)

Zoran Petrović
Born	(1954-03-05)5 March 1954 Kragujevac, Serbia
Occupation	Writer and publicist
Nationality	Serbian

Zoran Petrović (born 5 March 1954, Kragujevac) is a poet, novelist, screenwriter. He published a couple of poetry books, children books, novels, and two books as a publicist. He was the managing director of the oldest theater in Serbia Joakim Vuić. Now he is working as an editor for the publishing sector of the museum 21 October and as the chief editor for culture in local weekly newspaper Svetlost. He is a columnist of Serbian newspaper Blic.

Biography

Zoran Petrović was born on 5 March 1954 in Kragujevac (former Yugoslavia) Serbia. He began writing in his early youth, which had been recognized right away and won him numerous awards. Later on, he started writing revives for Svetlsot publishing department, Radio Kragujevac, Koraci magazine. In two occasions he writes for The Great lesson(Svakodnevna molitva, 1995.) book of poems, and the screenplay(selection of former poems). He also wrote for the Serbian progressive rock band Smak and lyrics for children songs. Convinced, that only an author that dabbled in various genres of literature could be a complete writer, he went on doing some Opinion journalism. He participated in his high school newspaper and was the creator of student newspaper whilst studying law.

Works

Poetry

• Pan i ogledalo, (1978)
• Aleksandrijska kritična masa, (1989)
• Svakodnevna molitva, (1995)
• Apsolutna nula, (1996)
• Spasiti spasioca, (1998)
• Prisutni su odsutni, (2002)
• Stav u trostavu, (2009)
• Uputstva za korišćenje besmislica (u štampi)
• Popis nestalih stvari (u štampi)
• Običnim rečima rečeno (u pripremi)

Children poetry books

• Priča o slovima, (1978)
• Pesme iz trbuha, (1983)

Theater Screenplays

• Muvoserine

Screenplay for children theater

• Magareća koža

Short story – books

• Raspadanje dekadnog sistema, (2010)

Opinion journalism

• Tajni dosije Josip Broz (Neobjavljeni arhivi Barskog kongresa)
• Vreme laži (knjiga razgovora sa Dankom Popovićem)

Novels

• Kamen blizanac, (2010)
• Poslednja narudžbina, (2010)
• Ugarak, (2011)

Awards

• Miloš Crnjanski, 2011,^[1]

References