Dragana Kršenković Brković


Dragana Kršenković Brković is a Montenegrin writer.

Biography

Kršenkovic Brković graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences and from the Faculty of Drama Arts. TV Belgrade screened her play - Vrele kapi in 1981. She wrote it for an entrance examination.
As the Wars in the Balkans erupted, she moved from Belgrade, Serbia, to Podgorica, Montenegro. There, Kršenković Brković established a puppet theater called the Blue Lagoon, with her husband, Tomislav Brković.
Kršenković Brković was a Hubert Humphrey fellow 2005-06, which is part of the Fulbright Exchange Program. She spent a year in Washington DC, US. She also received an Austrian Government grant in order to carry out research at the University of Graz in Austria in 2008.
Krsenkovic Brkovic was a guest writer in residential programs in the US, Hungary, and Austria. Besides, she participated in Rhodes, Greece ; Bologna, Italy ; Bratislava, Slovakia, etc.
Her plays are performed in many Balkan countries. Four of her plays are set texts for elementary schools in Montenegro and Macedonia. Her book The Genie of Lake Manito was selected for the 2011 White Ravens Awards by the Internationale Jugendbibliothek in Munich, Germany. She has been nominated for The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award ten times. The movie Hozentarus based on her fairy tale with the same title has been filmed by Public Broadcasting Services of Montenegro, RTCG.
Her stories have been published in many international magazines: Buchkultur, Blesok, Sarajevo Notebook, ARS, etc.
Krsenkovic Brkovic has published two novels, two story collections, one collection of drama plays, one monograph, and several children's books.

Works

;Fiction
;Children's books
;Non-fiction