Name Dragan Lakicevic | Role Poet | |
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Dragan Lakićević is a Serbian poet, storyteller, novelist, translator and editor of literature. Lakićević’ work has been translated into Russian, Greek, English, German, Swedish, Dutch, Polish, Italian, Belarusian, Romanian and Armenian. He has lived in Belgrade since 1972.
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Early life
Born on 5 August 1954 in Kolašin (Federal National Republic of Yugoslavia). He attended primary school in Kolašin (1960-1967) and secondary school in Titograd (Podgorica, 1968-1972). He graduated from the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade, Department of Yugoslav and World Literature in 1978.
Career
He worked in publishing as an editor of the publishing company “Rad” in Belgrade from 1979 and went on to become the editor-in-chief from 1986 to 1992. He was an editor of “Srpska književna zadruga” from 1992 and he is the editor-in-chief since 2009. Also, he took part in the publishing activities and projects of publishers Bookland, Partenon and Dereta …
Publishing for magazines
Lakićević was the editor of literary magazines "Raskovnik" and "Književna kritika”, as well as of the children’s Orthodox newspaper "Svetosavsko zvonce”. His poems were first published in 1970 in “Male novine” from Sarajevo and “Politika za decu” from Belgrade, and first books of poetry were published in 1976: “Između nas zima” (“Between Us the Winter”) by Matica Srpska (Novi Sad) and “Drugo lice” (“Another Face”) by Književna omladina Srbije (Belgrade). His diary from the war time, "Letters from Homeland" was published in Serbian-Swedish magazin "Dijaspora", at the year 1999.
Editorial work
He has edited and compiled numerous books, publications and editions including the anthology “Srpska književnost za decu” (“Serbian literature for children”) in nearly 100 volumes published by Bookland, Belgrade, 1995-2010. In addition to this he has compiled further anthologies of Serbian and world fairy tales and Serbian children’s poetry.
Awards
He has received a number of awards for his literary work: "Smeli cvet" (Savez Omladine Srbije), “Orden Zlatni jež”, "Politikin Zabavnik" literary award, “Zmaj Ognjeni Vuk”, “Kočićevo pero”, “Deretina knjiga godine”, “Vukova nagrada”, “Pečat varoši sremsko-karlovačke”, Gračanička povelja, Odzivi Filipu Višnjiću ...
Books about Lakićević' work
Journalist Miloš Jevtić published a book of interviews with Dragan Lakićević, entitled “Vernik poezije” (“Believer In Poetry”), while writer Dejan Vukićević compiled Dragan Lakićević’ bibliography from 1970 to 2004. Jasmina Milašinović is the author of the book “Vuk koji je bežao od sebe” (“A wolf who was running from himself”) – about the work of Dragan Lakićević.
Books of poems
“Između nas zima” (“Between Us the Winter”), “Drugo lice” (“Another face”), “Istorija bolesti” (“The History of Illness”), “Sveće na snegu” (“Candles In the Snow”), “Sneg pada dušo” (“Snow Is Falling, My Dear), “Snežni vrt” (“The Snowy Garden”), “Pesma je tako blizu” (“A poem is so near”), “Snežna ikona” (“Snow icon”)...
Longer poems
“Porodični album” (“The Family Album”), “Porodični azbučnik” (“The Family Alphabet”).
Novels
“Studengrad” (“The Frozentown”), “Zemaljski ključ” (“The Earthly key”), “Četni đavo” (“The Company Devil”), “Mastermajnd” (“Mastermind”), “Sabor poginulih” (“Sabor poginulih”), “Ljubavna knjižica” (“The Love Book”)...
Books of short stories
“Guslar na harmonici” (“Guslar on the Accordion”), “Ludački rukpis” (“Crazy Manuscript”), “Štap Svetog Save - legende” (“The Staff of St Sava - the legends”), “Kosovske legende” (“The Legends of Kosovo”), “Štap patrijarha Pavla - legende” (“The Staff of Patriarch Pavle - the legends”), “Slatka je muzika” (“Music is sweet”), “Legends about Belgrade”.
Children’s books
“Bajka o jabuci” (“The Tale Of the Apple”), “Mač Kneza Stefana” (“The Sword of Prince Stefan”), “Princeza i lav” (“The Princess and the lion"), Beogradska princeza” (“The Belgrade Princess”), “Goca je nešto lepo” (“Goca Is Something Nice”), “Laki”, “Robin Hud iz Topčiderske šume” (“Robin Hood from the Topcider forest”), "Vitez viline gore" ("The knight from elf' forest"), “The return of Peter Pan”.
Anthologies
“Srpske narodne bajke” (“Serbian Folk Tales”), “Srpske junačke pesme” (“ Serbian Epic Poems”), “Antologija srpske poezije za decu” (“Anthology of Serbian Poetry for Children”), “Čarobna knjiga - svetske price za decu” (“The Magic Books - the World Stories for Children”), “Antologija svetskih priča za decu” (“The World Anthology of Stories for Children”), “San o jabuci – svetske ljubavne priče” (“The dream of an Apple - the World Love Stories”), “San o plavoj svetlosti – svetske ljubavne priče” (“The Dream of the Blue Light - the World Love Stories”), "Žar ptica, bajke naroda sveta" ("Fairy-tales from nations of the world") ...