Name Mirko Kovac | Role Writer Awards NIN Award | |
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Books Vrata od utrobe, Kristalne resetke, Ruganje s dusom Movies Occupation in 26 Pictures, Playing Soldiers People also search for Lordan Zafranovic, Bato Cengic, Josip Remenar | ||
Mirko Kovač (26 December 1938 – 19 August 2013) [1] was a Yugoslav writer.
Kovač was born in the village of Petrovići near Nikšić (at the time in the Drina Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, now in Montenegro).
His works are novels: Gubilište, Moja sestra Elida, Malvina, Ruganje s dušom, Vrata od utrobe (which won him the NIN Prize in 1978), Uvod u drugi život, Kristalne rešetke, Grad u zrcalu, and collections of short stories: Rane Luke Meštrovića i Nebeski zaručnici; collection of essays: Evropska trulež i drugi eseji, Na odru, Cvjetanje mase, Elita gora od rulje; film scripts Okupacija u 26 slika and others. He published Knjiga pisama with Serbian writer Filip David.
He received: Serbian NIN Prize 1978 and Andrić Award 1987, Swedish PEN Tucholsky Award (1993), German Herder Prize (1995), Montenegrin Njegoš Award (2009) and 13th July award (2004), Slovenian Vilenica Award (2003), Croatian Vladimir Nazor Award (2008) etc. He lived in Belgrade but moved to Rovinj, Croatia, his wife's hometown, after Slobodan Milošević came to power.
