Dragan Lakićević


Dragan Lakićević is a Serbian poet, storyteller, novelist, translator and editor of literature. Lakićević's work has been translated into Russian, Greek, English, German, Swedish, Dutch, Polish, Italian, Belarusian, Romanian and Armenian. He has lived in Belgrade since 1972.

Early life

Born on 5 August 1954 in Kolašin, Yugoslavia, he attended primary school in Kolašin from 1960–1967 and secondary school in Titograd from 1968–1972. He graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology, 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 has been the editor-in-chief since 2009. He also 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” by Matica srpska and “Drugo lice” by Književna omladina Srbije. 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” 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", “Orden Zlatni jež”, "Politikin Zabavnik" literary award, “Zmaj Ognjeni Vuk”, “Kočićevo pero”, “Deretina knjiga godine”, “:sh:Vukova nagrada|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”, 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” – about the work of Dragan Lakićević.

Important works

Books of poems

“Između nas zima”, “Drugo lice”, “Istorija bolesti”, “Sveće na snegu”, “Sneg pada dušo”, “Snežni vrt”, “Pesma je tako blizu”, “Snežna ikona”...

Longer poems

“Porodični album”, “Porodični azbučnik”.

Novels